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Hosting Silverlight Media with Azure

I am considering hosting an MP4 using Azure Blob storage. When azure returns blob using url, it includes accept-range header. Will Silverlight be able to forward requests for bytes to Azure storage?

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Yes, range queries work with blob storage. I've seen this script (with wmv files) and everything looks fine.



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Instead of using an Azure step, you can use Microsoft Silverlight Streaming hosting.

It gives you 10GB for free, see



http://silverlight.live.com/

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Beware of cross-site scripting issues in the (current) Azure Blob storage - you can call any media from the native Silverlight media editor, but I saw an issue using (I think) the HttpRequest object - the developer wanted to see how it was (they did something, related to file caching), and simply making this request to the blob store (for example, another domain from the SL worker role was hosted in) caused a cross-site scripting error.

Nastya

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I don't think we got the answer to the first question: "When azure returns a blob using url, does it include the accept-range header?"

I think the answer is no. My question is why not, and is there a way to add it? It seems that some applications - Adobe Reader, for example - won't use ranges unless the original GET returns this header.

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