Stream not found before onHTTPSessionCreate

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hello!

I’m trying to use the onHTTPSessionCreate to redirect HTTP streaming sessions to a given EDGE server selected by the load balance redirector.

The code I’m using for this redirection:

public class HTTPRedirector extends ModuleBase
{
	private ILoadBalancerRedirector Redirector = null;
	
	private ILoadBalancerRedirector getRedirector()
	{
		if (this.Redirector == null)
		{
			while(true)
			{
				LoadBalancerListener listener = (LoadBalancerListener)Server.getInstance().getProperties().get(ServerListenerLoadBalancerListener.PROP_LOADBALANCERLISTENER);
				if (listener == null)
				{
					Log.error("HTTPLoadBalancerRedirector.constructor: LoadBalancerListener not found.");
				}
				
				this.Redirector = listener.getRedirector();
				if (this.Redirector == null)
				{
					Log.error("HTTPLoadBalancerRedirector.constructor: ILoadBalancerRedirector not found.");
					break;
				}
				break;
			}
		}
		
		return this.Redirector;
	}
	public void onAppStart(IApplicationInstance appInstance)
	{
		getRedirector();
	}
	public void onHTTPSessionCreate(IHTTPStreamerSession httpSession)
	{
		if (this.Redirector != null)
		{
			LoadBalancerRedirect redirect = this.Redirector.getRedirect();
			
			StringBuilder redirectURL = new StringBuilder();
			redirectURL.append("http://");
			redirectURL.append(redirect.getHost());
			redirectURL.append(":");
			redirectURL.append(httpSession.getServerPort());
			redirectURL.append("/");
			redirectURL.append(httpSession.getUri());
			if (httpSession.getQueryStr() != null)
			{
				redirectURL.append("?");
				redirectURL.append(httpSession.getQueryStr());
			}
			
			httpSession.redirectSession(redirectURL.toString());
		}
	}
}

Putting the URL directly into browser location, everything works fine, the video even starts to play on ipad. But when I try to play using JWPlayer I’m getting a stream not found error from HTTPStreamerAdapterCupertinoStreamer.onCheckAvailability, what makes the onHTTPSessionCreate not to be called. They two request the same URL, but with some differences in HTTP header.

Request from JWPLayer (does not work):

GET /VCastingLive/1111/playlist.m3u8 HTTP/1.1
Host: 54.232.217.21
User-Agent: AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.9B206 (iPad; U; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X; pt_br)
Accept: */*
Range: bytes=0-1
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Playback-Session-Id: A285F91A-542C-4C99-8132-9ED88D1F45D5
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: FlashCom/3.5.7
Content-Length: 0

From Safari (works):

GET /VCastingLive/1111/playlist.m3u8 HTTP/1.1
Host: 54.232.217.21
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pt-br
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:50:29 GMT
Location: http://54.232.215.200:80/VCastingLive/1111/playlist.m3u8
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: FlashCom/3.5.7
Content-Length: 0

Is there any way to avoid these Wowza checks for stream availability?

Thanks!

Renato A. Ferreira

2

Renato,

This article shows how to redirect HTTP request:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-redirect-an-http-or-rtsp-session-through-server-side-code

But involving Wowza at all like this when you have the Wowza Load Balancer in place does not make sense. You can grab least loaded server over http from any client, or do it in your application server as you are forming the player in a http response.

Richard

3

Richard,

Even understanding everything I read about documentation and articles like the one you suggested, I considered that having one part of the server selecting decision in server-side (RTMP) and the other part (HTTP) in client-side will make things harder to keep and to be understood in future.

The solution I chose was to create a simple asynchronous HTTP server map using grizzly, in the same way I was trying with onHTTPSessionCreate event, but being started as a ServerListener, what worked nicely with JWPlayer in Safari/IOS.

Thank-you!

Renato A. Ferreira