Bug#717869: VLC HTTP streaming doesn't work with HTTP proxy enabled

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

reassign 717869 vlc-nox
fixed 717869 2.0.4-1
forwarded 717869 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7417
tags 717869 + wheezy confirmed fixed-upstream
thanks

Le jeudi 25 juillet 2013 21:15:01 Rob van der Putten a écrit :
> VLC HTTP streaming doesn't work with HTTP proxy enabled. A 'tcpdump -A'
> shows that VLC strips the path/file bit from the request. So
> 'http://Some_host/Some_Path/Some_File' becomes 'http://Some_host:80'
> The squid proxy server access log confirms this.

This bug was fixed 11 months ago... No kidding.

> An exception is using an IPv6 address instead of a hostname. When using
> 'http://[IPv6_Addres]/Some_Path/Some_File' VLC will bypass the proxy and
> work correctly. This is odd since my proxy is dual stack and a tcpdump
> shows that VLC requests both it's IPv4 and IPv6 address. In fact, it uses
> IPv6.

This might be a bug in libproxy not parsing IPv6 addresses correctly.

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