Re: [MMUSIC] Request URI with query and control URI

[Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:56:38 +0100, Magnus Westerlund
<magnus.westerlund at ericsson.com> wrote:
> I am simply pointing out that the rules we are using defined in RFC 3986
> do result in this behavior. I personally don't think changing these
> processing rules are beneficial. The rules for RFC 2326 are very
> uncertain as this whole things is underspecified.
> 
> So the question around this to the community is if we really see enough
> benefit in breaking compatibility with the generic URI rules?
> 
> My vote is definitely for no.

My empirical experience is that various RTSP (1.0) clients implement this
in various ways, from plain dumb concatenation to proper RFC3986
implementation. If it were me, I would mandate absolute URIs in a=control.
This would additionally allow "exporting" any SDP from RTSP DESCRIBE
without changes.

I am not very optimistic about implementors fixing their crappy
implementations. RTSP is already so complex that it's essentially
impossible to not violate the spec (either by accident or to avoid bloat).
In other words, whatever the spec says, the only way a server will
interoperate is by sticking to absolute URIs.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont

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