Hercules C++ Fog App - Multi-location redirect validation and test harness update

The Hercules Player is an application that allows customers to download videos to their computer or device for offline playback, along with streaming playback of videos for online playback.

The Hercules Fog project has stripped out some key portions of the Hercules Player application into a new test application for downloading videos from a server, modifying the manifest, and then playing back on various mobile and TV devices.

The current implementation is C++ and will run on:

• Windows
  Linux
  Mac

We recently implemented support for a multi-location response when requesting the redirect to the main manifest, as well as some failover functionality if certain links are unavailable.  The client has asked that we formally validate and test the implementation to ensure there aren't any bugs.

NOTE:  This is a very technical challenge and will require a fair bit of work in setup and testing. 

Requirements:

The requirements are captured in this Gitlab ticket:
https://gitlab.com/hercules-fog/Fog-CLI/issues/210

Sample player

This site is what will be used by reviewers to test playback:

http://player.b1.app.cloud.comcast.net/ 

It is expected that reviewers will need to run Google Chrome with web security disabled to get around XSS / CORS issues when playing back from a Fog recorded URL. 
 

Submission

Your code must be submitted as a Git patch file against the "multi-location-redirect" branch

https://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-git/

Base your patch file against commit hash 59c94f02b1d32af4d73712262d408c467203b603 .

Please make sure to test your patch before submission!

Final Submission Guidelines

Please see above