[vlc] HTTP Redirection

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 31 août 2009 18:27:35 kranthi, vous avez écrit :
> By default VLC Ignores insecure HTTP redirection to non HTTP protocol
> it irritates me being not able to redirect VLC from
> http://localhost/test.php to file:///path/to/mp3/file.mp3 (while i can
> safely redirect to http://some_other_ip/file.mp3)
> how do I override this ?

You can't, other than by changing the source.

Redirecting to a local file is dangerous and purposedly not allowed. The fact 
that the server is on localhost makes little difference, as you don't 
necessarilty trust everything on a multi-user system.

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