changeset 6103:447fe3440991 libavformat

Modify the behaviour of http_open to implicitly delay connection establishment The connection is made on the first http_read, http_write or http_seek. Patch by Josh Allmann, joshua dot allmann at gmail

--- a/http.c	Mon Jun 07 11:27:26 2010 +0000
+++ b/http.c	Tue Jun 08 10:04:39 2010 +0000
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
     int64_t off, filesize;
     char location[URL_SIZE];
     HTTPAuthState auth_state;
+    int init;
 } HTTPContext;
 
 static int http_connect(URLContext *h, const char *path, const char *hoststr,
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@
     HTTPContext *s = h->priv_data;
     URLContext *hd = NULL;
 
+    s->init = 1;
     proxy_path = getenv("http_proxy");
     use_proxy = (proxy_path != NULL) && !getenv("no_proxy") &&
         av_strstart(proxy_path, "http://", NULL);
@@ -123,7 +125,6 @@
 static int http_open(URLContext *h, const char *uri, int flags)
 {
     HTTPContext *s;
-    int ret;
 
     h->is_streamed = 1;
 
@@ -135,13 +136,11 @@
     s->filesize = -1;
     s->chunksize = -1;
     s->off = 0;
+    s->init = 0;
     memset(&s->auth_state, 0, sizeof(s->auth_state));
     av_strlcpy(s->location, uri, URL_SIZE);
 
-    ret = http_open_cnx(h);
-    if (ret != 0)
-        av_free (s);
-    return ret;
+    return 0;
 }
 static int http_getc(HTTPContext *s)
 {
@@ -322,6 +321,17 @@
     HTTPContext *s = h->priv_data;
     int len;
 
+    if (!s->init) {
+        int ret = http_open_cnx(h);
+        if (ret != 0)
+            return ret;
+    }
+
+    /* A size of zero can be used to force
+     * initializaton of the connection. */
+    if (!size)
+        return 0;
+
     if (s->chunksize >= 0) {
         if (!s->chunksize) {
             char line[32];
@@ -369,6 +379,12 @@
     char crlf[] = "\r\n";
     HTTPContext *s = h->priv_data;
 
+    if (!s->init) {
+        int ret = http_open_cnx(h);
+        if (ret != 0)
+            return ret;
+    }
+
     if (s->chunksize == -1) {
         /* headers are sent without any special encoding */
         return url_write(s->hd, buf, size);