[Live-devel] RTSPClient::openConnectionFromURL and fBaseURL

[Ross Finlayson]

>In looking at openConnectionFromURL() I think I see a potential 
>problem with fBaseURL.
>Basically the first thing this method does is free fBaseURL and then 
>strDup the new URL.
>Next this method parses the url and then checks to see if it a input 
>socket is open and if not opens one using the URL.
>If parsing fails or an input socket is already open the function 
>aborts and doesn't clean up fBaseURL.
>
>The problem I see is if a socket where opened to a URL and then 
>never closed before calling openConnectionFromURL with another URL 
>fBaseURL could be set to a URL that doesn't match the URL the socket 
>is connected to.
>This seems like a potential for a bug or at the very least much confusion.

A single "RTSPClient" instance (at least, in its current 
implementation) was never intended to support more than one RTSP URL 
- either concurrently, or successively.  You should use a different 
"RTSPClient" object for each RTSP URL that you want to handle.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/