Re: What features shall be handled by SLiMP3 and what features shouldn't?

Rather then build authentication/authorization into the product, how
about better support for port proxying.... This way one can use squid
and apache to support any/all auth/sec scheme.

Also when I need to have external access for the service music
library, I use an OpenSSH forwarded port tunnel. It works really well.

Anthony

>>>>> "dean" == dean blackketter <[email protected]> writes:

 dean> I agree, it just hasn't been implemented yet.  On Monday,
 dean> February 17, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Jason Snell wrote:

 >> dean blackketter wrote:
 >> 
 >>> Specifically about your password protection feature, I'd
 >>> certainly consider it for inclusion in the main server if it
 >>> didn't make it harder to set up and use, increased the security
 >>> of the product and wasn't going to be a burden for us to
 >>> maintain.
 >>  But this is a big deal. Right now you've provided a server that's
 >> impossible to secure, which means that anyone with a port scanner
 >> can find it if it's not blocked by a firewall. Even basic HTTP
 >> authorization as an option would prevent people from browsing your
 >> library, changing your player settings, and finding your music
 >> files and downloading them. Providing some level of basic
 >> authentication, at least as an option, is vital. I'm not saying
 >> you need to create a users-and-groups interface or an IP range
 >> restriction or anything, but even my TiVo Web hack
 >> (tivo.lightn.org) has the ability to do basic authentication.
 >> 
 >> -jason
 >> --  
 >> Jason Snell / Editor, Macworld / jsnell-AANFnQOTzEpWk0Htik3J/[email protected] 415-243-3565

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