HTTP Basic Auth alternative

dtouch3d completely <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.icecast.devel
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Hello,

Is HTTP basic authentication the only way for icecast to perform
authentication ? With a link like

http://username:[email protected]:8000/mystream

(HTTP basic authentication) it has a number of problems regarding browsers.
Chrome for security reasons does not follow the link and shows a popup
asking to enter the credentials but this destroys user experience for a
site with a webplayer. It works fine afterwards. Internet Explorer does the
same.

It would be ideal if icecast would get the credentials from the GET
parameters, something similar to

http://example.com:8000/mystream?user=username&pass=password

this would eliminate the browser problems with the basic auth.

I am willing to implement something like this as it seems relatively simple.

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