RTMP

[8th....@gmail.com]

An amazingly useful application, I must say. Ever so much more
convenient than having to use iprelay to set up a squashed tunnel. ^.^

The problem is, as I believe you mentioned elsewhere, that if a flash
player initiates a connection after the page is loaded, then it will
not go through sloppy. Normally it is not a big deal, but now that I
have been commissioned to make an FLV stream player, it is somewhat
necessary. I figured, since I controlled the connection, I could test
it locally by pointing Sloppy to the Streaming Media Server and point
the SWF to Sloppy. The Problem? Sloppy's GUI prepends http:// to
everything. So I figured I would just use the CLI version, but then
that returned:

Failed to start Sloppy: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol:
or
Failed to start Sloppy: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown
protocol: rtmp

Needless to say, I am at a standstill until I figure this out. My next
step is to poke around in the source code, but I figured I would post
here a) if someone already knew the answer, they might save me the
work, b) if I find the answer, I can post it for anyone else who might
need it, but most of all c) I really do not trust my ability to solve
this ^^'

Thank you for everything ^v^

[Richard Dallaway]

Unfortunately Sloppy does mess with the HTTP request it passes on to
the real server. As such, it's built just for HTTP.

Having looked a the code -- and SlowProxyThread.java [1] in particular
-- we only do HTTP, but I don't see why we can't detect that you're
asking for non-HTTP and just do a bottlenecked-pass through of that
protocol. I don't know if it'd work as I'm not familiar with the
behaviour of RTMP, but it could be tried.

Richard


1. http://code.google.com/p/sloppy/source/browse/trunk/sloppy/src/com/dallaway/sloppy/SlowProxyThread.java