[Live-devel] Make all RTSP requests potentially session-aware

[Lionel Orry]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:
> That's what I did, and I put in it additional parsing code for the
> Session header and could retrieve the corresponding session with a
> Lookup.
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> But there's no guarantee that an "OPTIONS" request will even contain a
> session header.   And even if it does, there's nothing session-specific that
> you could/should be doing to handle it, because the only thing an "OPTIONS"
> response should contain is a list of request names that the server handles.
> And that has nothing to do with session-specific state.

I agree with you. But I am working with a kind of proprietary RTSP
superset which need this (they use OPTIONS to keep-alive sessions),
and I am not responsible for these choices. :)

Lionel

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