[vlc-devel] [PATCH 5a/5] stream_ReadLine: control maximum length with object variable

[Pierre Ynard]

> Why not? Surely browsers have more robust HTML parsers that can handle
> large pages. 8 MiB would be peanuts compared to the overhead of an
> HTML5 video playback pipeline.
>
> And if you use deflate compression or such, making lines longer
> just to screw the poorly designed scrapers (including VLC) is very
> inexpensive and feasible.

Fair theoretical point, if unlikely.

I have no reason to be pessimistic about it. YouTube signature
descrambling has been working fine for 7 years now using the same
successful initial design. The only updates it needed were minor ones,
or iterative refinements that were already envisioned in the initial
design.

So I say, we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."