[Bug 709455] dlnasrc: new manager type element used for dlna specific HTTP transfers

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709455
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | 1.x

--- Comment #53 from Lori Anderson <grandocap at gmail.com> 2013-12-04 16:05:33 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #48)
> The reason I thought it might be good to make souphttpsrc do this is that
> DLNA's protocol is a superset of HTTP (I think?), so we should be able to
> connect to DLNA servers as a normal HTTP client, then switch to DLNA-mode if we
> detect that the server supports it. I think the main differences are that there
> are extra headers and that the content might be encrypted.

If we follow the approach I outlined, dlnasrc will only be in "DLNA-mode"
(include dlna type headers) if the server supports them. If there is no dlna
support on the server, souphttpsrc or webkitwebsrc will operate like a "normal"
HTTP client.

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