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

This approach should work with SLIMP3.  Anybody set it up?

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 04:55  PM, Jason Snell wrote:

> To follow up my TiVo analogy... it's a similar issue, I think.
>
> from http://tivo.lightn.org/README
>
>> SECURITY
>> It is a very bad idea to make a tivo IP accessable on the internet.   
>> Telnet
>> has no authentication and a DOS attack can easily crash a tivo.  Even  
>> IP-based
>> access control can be bypassed by simple packet forging.  TivoWeb-TCL  
>> does
>> provides basic authentication services by setting a username and  
>> password in
>> tivoweb.cfg.  If you use this option you should make sure to only  
>> allow port
>> 80 through to the tivo from known IPs at the router/firewall level.   
>> That is
>> probably sufficient protection for tivoweb.  However a much better  
>> option is
>> to use apache (or IIS) as an authenticating proxy to your tivo.   
>> Below are
>> instructions on how to set that up.  And an SSL authenticating proxy  
>> is even
>> better but can be difficult to setup depending on the OS/distribution  
>> used.
>>
>> PROXY CONFIGURATION
>> Here is a sample configuration to make your apache server an  
>> authenticating
>> proxy to the tivo.  You will need some understanding of configuring  
>> an apache
>> web server to be able to use this.  This will let you access tivoweb  
>> from a
>> browser by going to http://www.domain.tld:8080/.  Use 'htpasswd
>> /etc/apache/passwd <username>' to add/edit user's logins.
>>
>> <VirtualHost *>
>> ServerName www.domain.tld
>> ...
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> NameVirtualHost *
>>
>> Listen 80
>> Listen 8080
>>
>> <VirtualHost *:8080>
>> ServerName www.domain.tld
>> DocumentRoot /var/www
>> ServerAdmin [email protected]
>>
>> ProxyPass / http://tivo/
>> ProxyPassReverse / http://tivo/
>>
>> <Location />
>> AllowOverride None
>> AuthType Basic
>> AuthName tivo
>> AuthUserFile /etc/apache/passwd
>> require valid-user
>> </Location>
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> You may also need to uncomment mod_proxy in the load modules section  
>> of you
>> apache configuration file.
>>
>> If you want to proxy the tivo from a subdirectory of your main site  
>> you will
>> need to change the the following lines in your apache configuration  
>> and
>> tivoweb.cfg file.
>>
>> Apache config:
>> ProxyPass /tivo http://tivo/
>> ProxyPassReverse /tivo http://tivo/
>> <Location /tivo>
>>
>> tivoweb.cfg:
>> Prefix = tivo
>
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