[Live-devel] PATCH RTSP KeepAlive Support.

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Tue Jan 24 14:17:55 PST 2006


>Well, I guess I'm not clear on which part offends, the fact that keep
>alive is enabled by modifying the user agent string or the fact that
>the current code seems to ignore the _KA if it's appended to a
>string, such the one generated by vlc/livemedia. Either way it's not
>great, I will admit. And yes, the Kasenna server really does care
>about this. Appending _KA to the user_agent string is the only way to
>activate this functionality according to their documentation.

Ugh...  OK, what I'll probably do then is add a member function to 
"RTSPClient" that allows you to add an optional string suffix to the 
user agent string.  That's still a hack, but a little more general - 
e.g., in the non-Kasenna case the suffix might just be something like " [VLC]".


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>



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