Urgh. How annoying.

Yes, a URL should only require valid URL characters to be part of the string and spaces and #-letters are not. I claim librtmp is broken in this aspect. But I also acknowledge that me saying this doesn't help you with this problem one bit.

I first considered that perhaps the bug is in libcurl and perhaps we should url-decode the URL string before we pass it to RTMP_SetupURL() but I'm not convinced that is the correct route either as for example http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/librtmp.3.html shows how to use the function and it encourages an illegal URL to be used. I'm a bit concerned that URL-decoding before passing it to librtmp may have some other side-effects I haven't really thought about even if it would allow %23 to be used instead of the literal #...

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** [bugs:#1278] Parse rtmp token utf-8 character **
**Status:** open
**Labels:** rtmp token utf-8 character 
**Created:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 03:58 PM UTC by Gorilla Maguila
**Last Updated:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:39 PM UTC
**Owner:** Daniel Stenberg
Steps to reproduce:
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$curl "rtmp://live.iguide.to/edge swfUrl=http://player.ilive.to/player_ilive_2.swf pageUrl=http://www.ilive.to playpath=nz7l9vc5nv1og7b token=#e87JDUJD264YED687 live=1"
~~~~~~
Output:
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ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
curl: (2) Failed initialization
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The error happens due to not parsing the correct token because of "#" character. To test that I just put a printf in  rtmp_setup like this:
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static CURLcode rtmp_setup(struct connectdata *conn)
{
  RTMP *r = RTMP_Alloc();
  if(!r)
    return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;
  RTMP_Init(r);
  RTMP_SetBufferMS(r, DEF_BUFTIME);
  printf(
            "CURLcode rtmp_setup %s \n", conn->data->change.url);
  if(!RTMP_SetupURL(r, conn->data->change.url)) {
    RTMP_Free(r);
    return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;
  }
  conn->proto.generic = r;
  return CURLE_OK;
}
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The output is:
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CURLcode rtmp_setup rtmp://live.iguide.to/edge swfUrl=http://player.ilive.to/player_ilive_2.swf pageUrl=http://www.ilive.to playpath=nz7l9vc5nv1og7b token=
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
curl: (2) Failed initialization
~~~~~~
If no "#" it's present the token it's parsed correctly:
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$curl "rtmp://live.iguide.to/edge swfUrl=http://player.ilive.to/player_ilive_2.swf pageUrl=http://www.ilive.to playpath=nz7l9vc5nv1og7b token=e87JDUJD264YED687 live=1"
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Although the rtmp response fails as it's normal:
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CURLcode rtmp_setup rtmp://live.iguide.to/edge swfUrl=http://player.ilive.to/player_ilive_2.swf pageUrl=http://www.ilive.to playpath=nz7l9vc5nv1og7b token=e87JDUJD264YED687 live=1: 
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
curl: (2) Failed initialization
~~~~~~
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