Re: Issue with "bytes" Range Unit and live streaming

[Amos Jeffries <[e-mail]>]

On 15/04/2016 11:26 a.m., Craig Pratt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We have a use case where we are "live streaming" media over HTTP. As with other 
> (non-segmented) HTTP streaming applications, our live streaming solution has the 
> HTTP client perform a GET on a URI representing the live audio or video content 
> stream and with the server progressively returning data using chunked transfer 
> coding. The data returned to the server is "live" so long as the client reads 
> data as quickly as it's generated - with TCP flow control allowing the client's 
> reading of the response data to be paced to the live chunk generation of the 
> HTTP server.

Please be careful not to rely on the chunks arriving at the client in
the same sizes as were sent.

The chunked encoding is a hop-by-hop feature so any HTTP intermediary
which they travel through may re-code the chunk sizes according to its
own output needs.

Cheers
Amos