[Live-devel] rtsp url case sensitivity

[Robert Smith]

Hi Ross,

Yes I understand that it is an issue with VLC and not with Live555.

I'm not asking for any changes to the Live555 library.

I am asking whether it is possible to configure my Live555 RTSP server 
to ignore the case of stream names in URL's as a workaround for the VLC 
problem because we don't have a requirement for stream name case 
sensitivity.


On 06/10/2015 03:04 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> I would like to have Live555 ignore the case of rtsp url's as a 
>> workaround for this VLC problem:
>>
>> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11428
>
> No, this seems to be a problem specific to VLC (which is not our 
> software).  As far as I can tell (from the link that you included), 
> the problem is that VLC is storing old URLs somewhere, and then doing 
> a case-insensitive match when checking whether a newly-entered URL has 
> been used before (and then - if there's a match - reusing the previous 
> URL rather than the new URL).  This appears to be happening outside 
> the LIVE555 software (which VLC uses when its acting as a LIVE555 client).
>
> If, however, you can identify a specific problem with the LIVE555 code 
> (identifiable by using LIVE555 RTSP client code - e.g., "openRTSP" or 
> "testRTSPClient" - only), then let us know.
>
> If, on the other hand, you're asking that LIVE555 RTSP *servers* 
> ignore the case of stream names in URLs, then the answer is again No - 
> because some server developers might want to allow their server to 
> support more than one stream, whose names differ in case.  (Also, 
> stream names might be 'internationalized' - i.e., encoded as UTF-8 - 
> and case-insensitive comparison might not work (or work incorrectly) 
> if performed on UTF-8 stream names.)
>
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
>
>
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