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Hiawatha version: 7.5
Operating System: Debian Lenny

Hi,

I'm playing around with some .ogg audio files, that are embedded via html5 audio tag in a website. When I use an up-to-date Firefox 4, the file won't play, and I get an error message in the hiawatha error logfile for that virtual host which looks something like:


The problem seems to be in the combination of Hiawatha + Firefox, because
- other browsers work (Opera, Chromium, etc.) without the send timeout error
- Firefox streams embedded .ogg files on other websites without a problem
- I unsuccessfully tried different .ogg files on my Hiawatha server, that work with Firefox on other servers.

I don't know if there are some specific http request options used by Firefox for this kind of audio streaming which Hiawatha maybe doesn't support (just a guess), or if I configured something wrong, or if Firefox is just buggy.

Any hints in which direction to look further?

Kind regards,
Marc

Ok, I've found the cause of error. The mimetype for ogg files was missing.

Hugo, would you mind adding to mimetype.conf for future releases?

Kind regards,
Marc

The "send timeout" error means that a browser has requested a file, Hiawatha is busy sending it, but the client doesn't read it. This could be due to the fact that Hiawatha is sending it faster than the browser is willing to read.

You could play with the SocketSendTimeout or the Throttle option.

I've added the ogg extension to the mimetype configuration file.