Re: "RealPlayer 4.0" (fwd)

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

So... what exactly is the problem with RealPlayer 4.0?  'cause it doesn't
look to be affecting hotwired, and they don't have the browsermatch set up
for it.  Brian does have a contact, I editted out of this message I'll
send it privately to whomever knows how to reproduce the problem. 

Dean

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:59:24 -0800
From: Brian Benitez <be...@hotwired.com>
To: Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>
Subject: Re: "RealPlayer 4.0"

At 5:11 PM -0800 7/19/97, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>Has anyone tried "RealPlayer 4.0" (whatever that is) against one of
>hotwired's servers?  Does it work?  We've had a report that it doesn't
>like HTTP/1.1 responses either.  Anyone have a contact at Progressive
>Networks that will listen to bug reports?  (We've tried the normal
>channels.)
>
>Dean

I use the 4.0 realplayer every day and it appears to be fine... Looking
through the logs shows a lot of people using realplayer 4.

How is http 1.1 affecting the realaudio server? As I understand it, it
never has to deal with our web servers directly. There is a new component
of the server 4.0 (which we're running a copy of on port 7075 of the
realaudio machine - right now it's just handling the gallery real video
files) called "smart networking." If the client is not responding to UDP
packets delivered by the server, it switches over to using the http
protocol on port 80 - to pass through firewalls... is this perhaps where
the trouble is?? though we don't have any other files pointing at the new
4.0 server except the gallery video, other files are getting played out
through port 80.

Re: "RealPlayer 4.0" (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>]

Hmm, now that I read the message more I don't know.  So he is saying that
using the HTTP method and the v4.0 client it works fine from hotwired's
server?  Hmm.  I will try harder to stick a soundcard on a Windows box.

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:

> It has a feature to download directly from a HTTP server.  Don't know what
> they call it.  It doesn't support all the features, of course, but lets
> people hear realaudio files without a realaudio server.
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> 
> > So... what exactly is the problem with RealPlayer 4.0?  'cause it doesn't
> > look to be affecting hotwired, and they don't have the browsermatch set up
> > for it.  Brian does have a contact, I editted out of this message I'll
> > send it privately to whomever knows how to reproduce the problem. 
> > 
> > Dean
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:59:24 -0800
> > From: Brian Benitez <be...@hotwired.com>
> > To: Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>
> > Subject: Re: "RealPlayer 4.0"
> > 
> > At 5:11 PM -0800 7/19/97, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried "RealPlayer 4.0" (whatever that is) against one of
> > >hotwired's servers?  Does it work?  We've had a report that it doesn't
> > >like HTTP/1.1 responses either.  Anyone have a contact at Progressive
> > >Networks that will listen to bug reports?  (We've tried the normal
> > >channels.)
> > >
> > >Dean
> > 
> > I use the 4.0 realplayer every day and it appears to be fine... Looking
> > through the logs shows a lot of people using realplayer 4.
> > 
> > How is http 1.1 affecting the realaudio server? As I understand it, it
> > never has to deal with our web servers directly. There is a new component
> > of the server 4.0 (which we're running a copy of on port 7075 of the
> > realaudio machine - right now it's just handling the gallery real video
> > files) called "smart networking." If the client is not responding to UDP
> > packets delivered by the server, it switches over to using the http
> > protocol on port 80 - to pass through firewalls... is this perhaps where
> > the trouble is?? though we don't have any other files pointing at the new
> > 4.0 server except the gallery video, other files are getting played out
> > through port 80.
> > 
> > 
> 

Re: "RealPlayer 4.0" (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>]

It has a feature to download directly from a HTTP server.  Don't know what
they call it.  It doesn't support all the features, of course, but lets
people hear realaudio files without a realaudio server.

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:

> So... what exactly is the problem with RealPlayer 4.0?  'cause it doesn't
> look to be affecting hotwired, and they don't have the browsermatch set up
> for it.  Brian does have a contact, I editted out of this message I'll
> send it privately to whomever knows how to reproduce the problem. 
> 
> Dean
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:59:24 -0800
> From: Brian Benitez <be...@hotwired.com>
> To: Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>
> Subject: Re: "RealPlayer 4.0"
> 
> At 5:11 PM -0800 7/19/97, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> >Has anyone tried "RealPlayer 4.0" (whatever that is) against one of
> >hotwired's servers?  Does it work?  We've had a report that it doesn't
> >like HTTP/1.1 responses either.  Anyone have a contact at Progressive
> >Networks that will listen to bug reports?  (We've tried the normal
> >channels.)
> >
> >Dean
> 
> I use the 4.0 realplayer every day and it appears to be fine... Looking
> through the logs shows a lot of people using realplayer 4.
> 
> How is http 1.1 affecting the realaudio server? As I understand it, it
> never has to deal with our web servers directly. There is a new component
> of the server 4.0 (which we're running a copy of on port 7075 of the
> realaudio machine - right now it's just handling the gallery real video
> files) called "smart networking." If the client is not responding to UDP
> packets delivered by the server, it switches over to using the http
> protocol on port 80 - to pass through firewalls... is this perhaps where
> the trouble is?? though we don't have any other files pointing at the new
> 4.0 server except the gallery video, other files are getting played out
> through port 80.
> 
>