Notices by John Regan (jprjr@mastodon.social)

@ska @astraleureka @dalias I will say, one thing that's nice is being able to just send the bare minimum http 1.0 GET request, parse a few headers, and from that point just give bytes of data to your audio decoder.

But on the other hand it's $CURRENT_YEAR, everybody's using some kind of http library that abstracts things away anyway so chunking isn't hard to do.

I think the next icecast release is planning on supporting chunking but that's been in development for years.

@ska @astraleureka @dalias looking at the dates of the first Shoutcast release (1998) - I think it's conceivable they chose to not do http chunking - either due to the RFC still being written at the time of development, or even if it was done, it was probably still pretty new.

@dalias @ska @astraleureka one case where buffering the whole response and computing the content-length wouldn't work is Internet radio streams (icecast, shoutcast, etc). They just stream data forever.

Granted I'm not sure any folks out there are going to implement such streams as CGI/NPH scripts so, probably a moot point.

@lzg you also watching Christmas Mail?

@gabek yeah, our Patreon funding fell below our monthly server costs so, we decided to retire the video portion of the radio. It's still around as an Icecast-based, audio-only stream.