having difficulty to serve simple video files here (for playback in a browser via video-js or other player). even without the video player there are problems.
i have tested access to the video file both when the file is served from within the php framework i am using (elgg.org) and also directly from a public location on the webserver. in some circumstances the file 'might' play and in others i see a variety of different outcomes - and i am not aware of the causes of any of the behavior patterns.
when accessing the following file (which is not being served via PHP handling, it is just a directly accessed static file, served from nginx) firefox i am offered the option to view or download the file (as expected):
http://www.ureka.org/mod/multimedia/Bush%20Caught%20Lying%20About%20September%2011th%20-%20YouTube%20%5B360p%5D.flv
when i access the same file from chromium i am forwarded to the homepage of my website.
when i access the same file from curl in the terminal here, i see:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:31:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: keep-alive
Location: https://www.ureka.org/mod/multimedia/Bush%20Caught%20Lying%20About%20September%2011th%20-%20YouTube%20%5B360p%5D.flv
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
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when i run curl to access the same file being served through elgg and php i see:
curl -i https://www.ureka.org/file/download/9660/bush%20caught%20lying%20about%20september%2011th%20-%20youtube%20%5B360p%5D.flv
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:29:59 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.17
Set-Cookie: Elgg=gfjvl4tdrb30sqpasmketmmm22; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Location: https://www.ureka.org/
X-Cache-Debug: /file/download/9660/bush%20caught%20lying%20about%20september%2011th%20-%20youtube%20%5B360p%5D.flv
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
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does anyone know why there are so many variations of outcomes here? and what might be the reason why the file is not being consistently return with a 200 code? (or other equivalent success code).
the end result is that i am unable to play flv and other files from my webserver via video-js and other players.
i have spoken with the server host about this and they did not identify that any of their actions would cause this to occur.
any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
