[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15552: Serving video to iOS devices does not work in Multisite Wordpress due to lack of byte-range support

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#15552: Serving video to iOS devices does not work in Multisite Wordpress due to
lack of byte-range support
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 Reporter:  atetlaw       |       Owner:                 
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0.1          
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:                 
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 Apparently iOS ''requires'' byte-range support for audio and video.
 Serving a static .mp4 file to an iOS from Apache works fine, but serving
 the same file from a Wordpress MS 3.01 installation fails. This is because
 the file URL is rewritten to use ms-files.php. The PHP file does a
 readfile($file) on the file to serve it. This is incompatible with iOS
 devices and will fail.

 The problem, and a solution (supporting byte-range requests), is explained
 in 'Appendix A' here:
 http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/content-delivery-mobile-devices

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