[Bug 724376] http streams break when paused for a while

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724376
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | 1.2.3

--- Comment #8 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> 2014-02-20 19:01:26 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> one thing is the idle-timeout property; would a patch adding that to
> souphttpsrc be acceptable?

Yes

> another thing is the range-requests that are being tried on servers that don't
> support them, and then erroring out; I think it'd be better to check for the
> Accept-Ranges header, and not try the range-request if it's not supported, and
> getting "Forbidden"; I can handle these at a higher level, but afaics only by
> doing a strcmp for "Forbidden", which isn't very nice.

Yes, are we still not handling that correctly with latest GIT? :( Should
definitely be fixed. Can you prepare a patch for that?

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