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

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

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

--- Comment #3 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> ---
(In reply to Evan Callaway from comment #2)
> I agree, going forward using HTTP/1.1 would be the better solution. 
> Naively, HTTP/1.1 was supposed to be backwards compatible with 1.0, though I
> would bet that in practice there will be servers that strictly require 1.0.

It's only backwards compatible if you don't use any new HTTP/1.1 features...
like the Host header :)

> It's my understanding that you're correct-- we should favor the abs_path
> except when required in HTTP/1.0.  With 1.1 requests we should be able to
> always use abs_path combined with the Host header as it's possible to
> reconstruct the full path.  I will have to review the spec to be certain.

Thanks, can you add a comment with the results of your research and ideally
also provide a patch that implements this? Thanks!

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