Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe Systems for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server.
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This document describes the RTMPT tunneling protocol as implemented by the Red5 Open Source Flash Server. Please note that this document is _not_ an official specification by Macromedia but hopefully helps other people to write software that makes use of RTMPT.
RTMPT basically is a HTTP wrapper around the RTMP protocol that is sent using POST requests from the client to the server. Because of the non-persistent nature of HTTP connections, RTMPT requires the clients to poll for updates periodically in order to get notified about events that are generated by the server or other clients.
During the lifetime of a RTMPT session, four possible request types can be sent to the server which will be described below.
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