On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, GNUser wrote:

>> If that m3u8 file contains things you want to download, then you need to
>> extract that and ask curl to get those URLs one by one.

> I thought that just like curl has -L option to redirect, it would be able to
> read media files in the same fashion...

It won't. curl downloads (or uploads) exactly what you ask it to. No more, no
less. -L is for following redirects but you're not getting any redirects.

>> That sounds like a potential bug somewhere. RTMP is not one of the most
>> frequently used protocols in curl land...
>
> Ok, so should I fill a bug report somewhere? How do I do it?

If you have an RTMP URL that works with other tools and fails with curl? Yes
that would be a subject for a bug report. File it at
https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues

But don't expect any immediate fix, We're very few people actually working on
fixing bugs and even fewer who knows anything about RTMP.

> Also, what are the most common use cases for curl? Just curious.

The by far most popular protocol used with curl is HTTP and HTTPS. curl is
then typically used to mimic browsers or to drive APIs of various sorts.

> Another questions, how do I read what other people send to this mailing
> list? until now I only got my own messages and responses to my own thread.

Based on the mailing list archive at
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2015-10/date.html this thread has been the
only subject on this list the last few days.

Whatever anyone sends to this list, you will get.

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