[Live-devel] Advice on per-message connection in RTSPClient & RTSPServer?

[Ross Finlayson]

>Does the LIVE
>RTSPServer assume that a TCP disconnect means the client is gone?

At present, yes.

Unfortunately there are no near-term plans to fix this.  Sorry.  I 
suggest modifying your client to not tear down the TCP connection 
between RTSP commands (for the same session).

>Also I've noted in RFC2326 page 27:
>
>For the scheme "rtsp", a persistent connection is assumed,
>    while the scheme "rtspu" calls for RTSP requests to be sent without
>    setting up a connection.
>
>So, is it correct to use "rtsp" (and not "rtspu") for this?

No, this is a red herring.  "rtspu" was intended to specify RTSP 
(control) over UDP, rather than TCP.  However, this was not really 
fully defined in RFC 2326, and noone ever implemented it.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/