CDATA in DASH Location tag

[tmagnien]

Hi. We're using DASH Location tag to load-balance our streams on different servers.

However, our URL has a query string and & characters should be quoted to &. I tried enclosing it in a CDATA block but it does not seem to work. Is this normal ? (Using & works but it would be easier for me not to rewrite the URL).

Thanks,
Thierry

[TheModMaker]

You need to double escape it. & For example:

<Location>http://example.com/?q=foo&amp;amp;bar</Location>

Once we parse this, it will be sent to the server as http://example.com/?q=foo&bar.

[vaage]

@tmagnien does @TheModMaker instructions fix your problem?

[tmagnien]

Hi. Sorry, I realize my question was not clear.

To sum up, this works:
<Location>http://somedomain/url?foo=1&amp;bar=2</Location>

But this is ignored:
<Location><![CDATA[http://somedomain/url?foo=1&bar=2]]></Location>

And I wanted to know if this is expected behaviour, as the 2nd form using CDATA is easier for me to generate.

Thanks,
Thierry

[TheModMaker]

I don't really see a reason this shouldn't be supported. It should be a simple fix. I'll add it to our next release.