Re: HTTP Basic Auth alternative
Micheil Smith <[email protected]>
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Fairly certain icecast does support SSL, and if not, you could just use an SSL terminator in front of it. – Micheil On 13 Jan 2015, at 17:33, dtouch3d completely <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >> >> You can do that if you use the URL auth backend: >> http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/auth.html#url > > Thanks! Appending parameters to the url is possible because it passed > to the external url in the mount property, and icecast doesn't mind > serving the right mount point. I don't remember seeing this in the > docs though, I think it would be good addition. > > Also, sorry about the HTML, gmail changed the format to "rich text" > for some reason. > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:25 PM, renan jegouzo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Would be better to try directly https protocol, to be more secure. > > You are right, that would be more secure. The credentials are now sent > unencrypted. But this means icecast must support this functionality > and I have not seen anything in the docs. Is this supported ? > _______________________________________________ > Icecast-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast-dev _______________________________________________ Icecast-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast-dev