Re: Fwd: HTTP redirect for HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) in CDN use cases

On 2018-11-04 12:19, Ori Finkelman wrote:
> Thanks Julian.
> 
> In that case, for Example 2:
> Would you say that the base URI for /vod/movie/master.m3u8 is resolved 
> by section 5.1.3 from the retrieval URI?
> In that case the base URI for /vod/movie/master.m3u8 is 
> https://edge1.dcdn.example.net/vod/movie/master.m3u8.
> Since the relative reference 1800K/1800_complete.m3u8 is encapsulated 
> within master.m3u8, it should be resolved according to section 5.1.2 and 
> should therefore be 
> https://edge1.dcdn.example.net/vod/movie/1800K/1800_complete.m3u8
> 
> So, example 2 behaves well, according to this interpretation.
> 
> For example 3:
> Following your input, master.m3u8 IS NOT encapsulated in the HTML (the 
> URI is), and therefore its base URI should be computed by section 5.1.3 
> from the retrieval URI, as in Example 2.
> That would lead to the same result that the 
> vod/movie/1800K/1800_complete.m3u8 base URI is at the edge cache.
> https://edge1.dcdn.example.net/vod/movie/1800K/1800_complete.m3u8
> 
> Is this the correct interpretation ?
> If so, then all these examples lead to the same conclusion that the 
> client should be 'sticky'.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ori
> ...

Absolutely.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 4 November 2018 11:43:29 UTC