HTTP output

Frederik Kriewitz frederik at kriewitz.eu
Tue Jul 28 12:44:06 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Y.Bosco<openboelru at pochta.ru> wrote:
> If you try to open http://[netaddress]:[someport]/[some name] with VLC
> then you could see a movie (if it exists :) ).
>
> I tried to include a link to http://[netaddress]:[someport]/[some name]
> into a web page, but the browser could only save the file (?!) under
> that link. I tried to change browser options but nothing changed.
>
> Is it possible to include links into web pages or not?

You can try to change the content type in output_http.c
There's a line:
http_header_start(hc, "200 OK", "application/octet-stream");
You can try e.g. "video/mpeg" instead of "application/octet-stream"
but what actually happens depends on the browser configuration.


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