[Bug 758922] New: rtspconnection should optionally make HTTP requests with abs_path instead of absoluteURI

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758922

            Bug ID: 758922
           Summary: rtspconnection should optionally make HTTP requests
                    with abs_path instead of absoluteURI
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 1.6.1
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-base
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: evan.callaway at ipconfigure.com
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

Consider the following pipeline for streaming RTSP over HTTP:

gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc
location="rtsph://user:pass@192.168.105.64:80/rtsp_tunnel" short-header=true !
decodebin ! fakesink

Referencing http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#Request-URI, with
the current rtspconnection code we always specify the absoluteURI in our
requests.  For example, a representative request would look like this:

POST http://192.168.105.64:80/rtsp_tunnel HTTP/1.0

This seems to work well for many servers, but there are a few very strict
servers that require HTTP requests to go to abs_path:

POST /rtsp_tunnel HTTP/1.0

Obviously, using absoluteURI is required if you are using a proxy so that the
request can be correctly routed.  I propose that we add a "use-abs-path" flag
to rtspsrc which in turn would instruct rtspconnection to use abs_path instead
of absoluteURI for HTTP requests for compatibility for these strict servers.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.  I'm happy to provide a patch if this
seems like an agreeable solution.

This issue would also be resolved by using HTTP/1.1 with the Host header as it
would be correctly parsed.

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