Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:45:50 -0600 (MDT)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@worldgate.com>
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Subject: Re: "RealPlayer 4.0" (fwd)
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Hmm, now that I read the message more I don't know.  So he is saying that
using the HTTP method and the v4.0 client it works fine from hotwired's
server?  Hmm.  I will try harder to stick a soundcard on a Windows box.

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:

> It has a feature to download directly from a HTTP server.  Don't know what
> they call it.  It doesn't support all the features, of course, but lets
> people hear realaudio files without a realaudio server.
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> 
> > So... what exactly is the problem with RealPlayer 4.0?  'cause it doesn't
> > look to be affecting hotwired, and they don't have the browsermatch set up
> > for it.  Brian does have a contact, I editted out of this message I'll
> > send it privately to whomever knows how to reproduce the problem. 
> > 
> > Dean
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:59:24 -0800
> > From: Brian Benitez <benitez@hotwired.com>
> > To: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
> > Subject: Re: "RealPlayer 4.0"
> > 
> > At 5:11 PM -0800 7/19/97, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried "RealPlayer 4.0" (whatever that is) against one of
> > >hotwired's servers?  Does it work?  We've had a report that it doesn't
> > >like HTTP/1.1 responses either.  Anyone have a contact at Progressive
> > >Networks that will listen to bug reports?  (We've tried the normal
> > >channels.)
> > >
> > >Dean
> > 
> > I use the 4.0 realplayer every day and it appears to be fine... Looking
> > through the logs shows a lot of people using realplayer 4.
> > 
> > How is http 1.1 affecting the realaudio server? As I understand it, it
> > never has to deal with our web servers directly. There is a new component
> > of the server 4.0 (which we're running a copy of on port 7075 of the
> > realaudio machine - right now it's just handling the gallery real video
> > files) called "smart networking." If the client is not responding to UDP
> > packets delivered by the server, it switches over to using the http
> > protocol on port 80 - to pass through firewalls... is this perhaps where
> > the trouble is?? though we don't have any other files pointing at the new
> > 4.0 server except the gallery video, other files are getting played out
> > through port 80.
> > 
> > 
>