From aa74401af8a40862c8e148222481921f8013f6ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Holljes Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 01:16:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] lavf/http: Document method option. Signed-off-by: Stephan Holljes --- doc/protocols.texi | 10 ++++++++++ libavformat/http.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi index f822d81223..453dbcf6bf 100644 --- a/doc/protocols.texi +++ b/doc/protocols.texi @@ -278,6 +278,16 @@ Set initial byte offset. @item end_offset Try to limit the request to bytes preceding this offset. +@item method +When used as a client option it sets the HTTP method for the request. + +When used as a server option it sets the HTTP method that is going to be +expected from the client(s). +If the expected and the received HTTP method do not match the client will +be given a Bad Request response. +When unset the HTTP method is not checked for now. This will be replaced by +autodetection in the future. + @item listen If set to 1 enables experimental HTTP server. This can be used to send data when used as an output option, or read data from a client with HTTP POST when used as diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c index 4f6716a75b..546741ad47 100644 --- a/libavformat/http.c +++ b/libavformat/http.c @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static const AVOption options[] = { { "location", "The actual location of the data received", OFFSET(location), AV_OPT_TYPE_STRING, { 0 }, 0, 0, D | E }, { "offset", "initial byte offset", OFFSET(off), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT64, { .i64 = 0 }, 0, INT64_MAX, D }, { "end_offset", "try to limit the request to bytes preceding this offset", OFFSET(end_off), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT64, { .i64 = 0 }, 0, INT64_MAX, D }, - { "method", "Override the HTTP method", OFFSET(method), AV_OPT_TYPE_STRING, { .str = NULL }, 0, 0, E }, + { "method", "Override the HTTP method or set the expected HTTP method from a client", OFFSET(method), AV_OPT_TYPE_STRING, { .str = NULL }, 0, 0, D | E }, { "reconnect", "auto reconnect after disconnect before EOF", OFFSET(reconnect), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 0 }, 0, 1, D }, { "listen", "listen on HTTP", OFFSET(listen), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 0 }, 0, 1, D | E }, { NULL }