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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:04:42 +0200 (CEST), Rob van der Putten

<rob at sput.nl>

wrote:

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

> 

> AFAIK libproxy's job is to find out the proxy settings.



libproxy wants the target URI as input and provides the proxy URI as

output. That is necessary to support such horrible things as PAC files.



I *guess* that libproxy returns direct:// when provided an URI with a

literal IPv6 as input.



> Is the current Debian version of VLC going to be fixed or should I

install 

> a version from an other source instead?



That is not up to me. I am not a Debian developer.



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