Hi Johan,

It is a known error in the RTSP specification. I can't really tell if your
scenario is okey. You should forward your question to the MMUSIC WG, mailing
list is [EMAIL PROTECTED], which created the RTSP protocol.

Regards

Magnus

Johan Gerhardsson wrote:

> Hello,
> requesting comments from anyone who has worked with RTSP design,
> implementation or deployment.
>
> If I were to make an RTSP proxy, is it possible to change the SETUP response
> (from server to the proxy) and add the 'source' parameter in the 'transport'
> header field to be: source=<address of server> before forwarding the message
> to the client?
> The purpose of this action would be to instruct an access router to have the
> media (RTP) packets (from server destined to the proxy) redirected to the
> client instead of the proxy. The client would then see that the source
> address of the media packets is equal to the server address and not the
> proxy.
>
> In reading RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol the Transport parameter
> named 'source' is mentioned (on page 59) but not defined in the syntax
> definition (on page 61). I hope this is just a typo cause I want to use this
> mechanism for the purpose described above.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with this scenario?
>
> Johan Gerhardsson
> Reddo Networks AB
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phone: +46 (0)73 942 2436
> http://reddo.net
> Livdjursgatan 4
> 12162 Johanneshov, Stockholm, Sweden

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