I have the similar problem, VLC 2.0.2 is not able to sent a proper http request. I did packet capturing for version 2.0.2 and 1.1.11 when old version is sending request to the server it does first part of URL in one packet like GET /udp/10.12.35.44:1234 HTTP/1.1 Host:192.168.1.1:4567 and the second ...