Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Accept a colon in the path of a URI, instead of stripping preceding characters. - Timothy Allen via ffmpeg-devel

From: Timothy Allen via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
Cc: Timothy Allen <tim@treehouse.org.za>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Accept a colon in the path of a URI, instead of stripping preceding characters.
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 21:09:03 +0200
Message-ID: <e9102839d8b84ae501e3481037449f5892280b35.camel@treehouse.org.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM8P223MB0365F0A14F3321B4DB086145BA9EA@DM8P223MB0365.NAMP223.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 18:56 +0000, softworkz . wrote:
> Why do you think it would require control over the server side?

The original ticket is referring to HLS, and specifically the manifest
of HLS, which means a remotely-hosted M3U playlist.

In principle, the user could download the playlist, convert any
relative URLs to absolute URLs, and percent-encode the URLs.

In practice, for most users, the URL will simply not play (or will skip
any segments containing colons in the URL) without any indication of
why the URL is failing.

Thanks,

Tim
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