[Live-devel] successful command but NULL result string

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Fri Feb 4 05:49:29 PST 2011


>On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 01:10 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>  No, this is not a bug.  As you can see, the server is some
>>  brain-damaged non-standard Microsoft thing.  It's not including a
>>  "Public:" header in its response to our RTSP "OPTIONS" command.  So,
>>  as far as our client is concerned, this is a NULL response.
>
>Ok.
>I thought an empty response ("") would be more logic

Perhaps, though an empty string ("") would be returned if the 
server's response included a "Public:" header that was empty - i.e.

Public:


>But in this case it would be good to note this can happen in the
>function description.

Yes, we already do ("RTSPClient.hh", line 54).
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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