Streaming flv video to JW FLV media player 4.0

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:30:57PM +0200, Thomas wrote:
>
>> Why is my rewrite rule not working as expected? My video still doesn't
>> want to scrub correctly.
>> 
>> Using the following config:
>> ---
>>   location ~ ^/videos/[\w|-]+\.flv.* {
>>     rewrite ^/(videos)/([\w|-]+\.flv\?start=\d+).* /$1/$2 break;
>>     root          /public;
>>     flv;
>>   }
>> ---
>> 
>> Using my regexp tool, I get the following:
>> 
>> Request:
>> /videos/video.flv?start=3850792&width=280&client=FLASH%20MAC%209,0,124,0&version=4.0%20$Rev:%2030%20$
>> 
>> Gets rewritten as:
>> /videos/video.flv?start=3850792
>> 
>> Am I not understanding how Nginx rewrite and location work?
>
>rewrite does work not with a query string.
>
>Try the attached patch: it allows several values in query string.

[...]

>-            start = ngx_atoof(p, r->args.len - (p - r->args.data));
>+            for (n = p; n < r->args.data + r->args.len; n++) {
>+                if (*n == '&') {

I believe adding check for ';' too is a good idea.

Maxim Dounin