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QuickTime Streaming returns 400 Bad Request

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When you are trying to view a QuickTime movies from a streaming server, sometimes you will get back a 400 Bad Request error.  At my network at work, we intercept all port 80 traffic and forward to our squid proxy server, which is why we get this error.  In order to fix this, just open up System Preferences, open the QuickTime pane, click the Advanced tab, and choose Custom… under the Transport Setup dropdown.  Choose HTTP as your protocol, and type in 7070 where is says Other.  Since making this modifications, we can view the QuickTime streams with no problems.

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11 Responses to “QuickTime Streaming returns 400 Bad Request”

  1. Sunnz Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    Thank you so much I recently installed Squid and I had no ideas why streaming doesn’t work anymore, and this has saved my day!! Thanks again!

  2. tony Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    thank i had the same problem

  3. Flow Says:
    June 9th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Thank you very much – that helps on Vista 32 too.

    Have a nice day!

  4. ben Says:
    June 28th, 2009 at 12:57 am

    thanks mate, saved me!!

  5. Travis Phipps Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    Thanks! As others have said, worked like a charm.
    Sure wish I had found this before I spent 2 hours trying to bypass with custom iptables rules.

  6. Zane Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks I was on the phone with helpdesk for 4 hours yesterday and no one could help me but this seemed to work.

  7. WORKS Says:
    January 29th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    THANKS ALOT – NR ONE ON GOOGLE
    BAD REQUEST 404 QUICKTIME

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  9. Andrew Says:
    April 14th, 2010 at 6:33 am

    How do you fix on Quicktime X?

  10. Andrew Says:
    April 14th, 2010 at 7:38 am

    Figured out how to do this on Mac Quicktime X:

    1) Open Terminal.
    2) Make sure Quicktime is closed.
    3) Type: “qtdefaults write TransportSettings HTTP 7070″ (Without Quotes)
    4) Hit Enter.

    Done.

  11. Rubyray Says:
    January 18th, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    Thank you so much for this help! I was getting that bad 400 thing from trying to upload college algebra videos for my class’s lecture. This helps a bunch!!!

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