Using protocolless links and problems with IE in players > v2.3

[qchroman]

Hello all,

I have noticed a strange behavior when players with version higher than 2.3 doesn't behave correctly when IE opens the page where the URL to the MPEG-DASH manifest is defined w/o the protocol.

For example, visit this page w/ 2.4 version of the player. Open network tab in your developer tools, put the following URL

//dash.edgesuite.net/akamai/bbb_30fps/bbb_30fps.mpd

and hit load. Observe.

The same works just fine in 2.3 player.

Thank you for your attention.

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BR

[davemevans]

2.4 saw the introduction of proper URL handling in dash.js. IE11 does not implement the required feature, so a fairly dumb parser was added for that platform.

Unfortunately, the dumb parser did not correctly handle scheme-relative URLs. This led to the manifest being retrieved correctly but segment requests being prepended with the application origin which is obviously wrong.

#1863 adds correct handling and associated tests.

Note that using scheme-relative URLs is now considered an anti-pattern.

[qchroman]

Thank you very much!