[opencms-dev] OpenCms 10.0.1 with Tomcat 8 and Apache 2.2: Playback of video files in iMacs, iPads and iPhones not possible (problem with Byte Range Header?)

Wed May 16 13:51:14 CEST 2018

Hi Kai,

Why not consider putting up the videos on youtube.

this also offload the server as well.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Schliemann, Kai <K.Schliemann at comundus.com>
wrote:

> Hi Filip,
>
> thank you very much for your answer. In the meantime we found out, what
> the problem was.
>
> There was an Apache proxy server which filtered the correct header.
>
> Best regards
>
> Kai
>
>
>
> *Von:* opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org <opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org> *Im
> Auftrag von *Filip.Kratochvil at ibacz.eu
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018 10:55
> *An:* The OpenCms mailing list <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [opencms-dev] OpenCms 10.0.1 with Tomcat 8 and Apache 2.2:
> Playback of video files in iMacs, iPads and iPhones not possible (problem
> with Byte Range Header?)
>
>
>
> Hi Kai,
>
>
>
> we serve video files by Apache (directly from filesystem).
>
>
>
> You can check this article, but we didn't implement it:
>
> http://balusc.omnifaces.org/2009/02/fileservlet-supporting-resume-and.html
>
>
>
> Probably the easiest solution is uploading video files to some
> CDN/streaming service outside of OpenCms.
>
>
>
> S pozdravem / Kind regards
>
> Filip Kratochvil
> OpenCms Consultant
>
>
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> Date: 05/11/2018 11:44AM
> Subject: [opencms-dev] OpenCms 10.0.1 with Tomcat 8 and Apache 2.2:
> Playback of video files in iMacs, iPads and iPhones not possible (problem
> with Byte Range Header?)
>
> Hi list,
> we have a problem with playing video (mp4) files on iMacs, iPads and
> iPhones.
> We are almost sure, that we could track it down to the issue described in
> this thread on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/
> questions/3397241/does-iphone-ipad-safari-require-accept-
> ranges-header-for-video.
>
> Furthermore we could find out, that when calling the video directly
> through Apache, the correct header is delivered:
> curl -k -i --head --header "Range: bytes=50-100" http://mydomain/video.mp4
> HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
> Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 14:25:39 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
> Last-Modified: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:20:30 GMT
> ETag: "bde8f-56642411f5380"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 51
> Content-Range: bytes 50-100/777871
> Content-Type: video/mp4
> Accessing the page directly via Tomcat delivers the wrong header:
>
> curl -k -i --head --header "Range: bytes=50-100"
> http://mydomain:8080/video.mp4
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: OpenCms/10.0.1
> Last-Modified: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:20:30 GMT
> Expires: Thu, 10 May 2018 14:30:55 GMT
> Cache-Control: max-age=86400
> Content-Type: video/mp4
> Content-Length: 777871
> Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 14:30:55 GMT
> Furthermore we found out, that there is a config option "useAcceptRanges"
> in Tomcats web.xml. But this is set to "true" by default. Setting this
> option explicitly did not change the behaviour.
> In OpenCms' web.xml ist that option not overwritten, which leaves us
> clueless.
>
> Does anyone already had this problem and solved it?
> Any idea is very welcome.
>
> Best regards
> Kai
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