URL (was Re: Question about playing TS files)

[Samuel Hocevar]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002, Bill Eldridge wrote:

> 2) Using a normal client URL address, a broadcast client
>    would reference something like:
> 
>          udpstream://172.30.0.255:1234
> 
>    but then that usually says what the server's port is,
>    not what the broadcast client should be listening at.
>    So how exactly would one go about telling the Web browser
>    to launch vlc with something like:
> 
>          udpstream://172.30.0.255:@1234
> 
>    without getting a bad URL error?

   This would be an URL error if we had http:, but since we have
udpstream: we can do whatever we want with this protocol.

   Also, note the @. In HTTP, http://foobar.com:1212@videolan.org:80/
will connect to server videolan.org:80, and use foobar.com:1212 as a
login/password couple.

-- 
Sam.

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