Re: [MMUSIC] RTSP: Connectionless vs. connection-based

[Jonathan Sergent <sergent@Sun.COM>]

On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 04:42 AM, Magnus Westerlund wrote:

> -  Any RTSP message with the sessions ID. A list in order of preference 
> of use should be established: Ping, Options with session header.
> -  RTCP messages from the client for the RTP sessions attached to the 
> session's media streams.
> - The TCP connection if it has keep alive messages verifying that 
> connectivity exist. (I am a little doubting about this. This may not 
> show an application failure correctly)
>
> My point is that persistent TCP is actually a special case of 
> non-persistent, and if a server implements non-persistent correctly it 
> will work fine when the client do not close the TCP connection.

This doesn't deal with the server closing the connection.  Should the 
server be able to close the connection after PLAY and assume the client 
will reconnect if it wants to send a PAUSE?  If the client does not 
expect this, it may stop playing the stream when this happens.

--jss.



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