Re: HTTP Basic Auth alternative
dtouch3d completely <[email protected]>
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Thank you, somehow I missed that. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Micheil Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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