On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Jim Hollinger wrote:

> You are correct, this mod did not come from a specification, but from
> operational experience. When negotiating an RTSP connection to several video
> servers and ip cameras, I found the curl_easy_perform() call will not return
> from the DESCRIBE request until it times-out if authentication fails.

> This is because the curl function expects the sdp content to be returned as
> the body of the response, but this content is not transmitted by the server
> if the client authentication fails.

Wow. That sounds terribly broken. Have you checked what (other) RTSP clients
do for these cases?

Can you show us the full set of headers such a typical RTSP server responds
with if the auth fails? Are you saying that it reports that there's a
content-length etc but it doesn't actually send that data?

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