[icecast-dev] separate source and client ports

[Michael Smith]

At 01:52 PM 8/13/02 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>The question I have is regarding separated ports for client and source connections. Let me explain.
>
>Since a short while I have been successfully testing icecast and ogg for live broadcasts. Now I am building a website around it, which of course I want to be dynamically generated on the fact whether there is a live broadcast or not.
>
>The easy way I want to do that is to check for connections on the given port in the icecast configuration file. Basically this works fine. If there is at least one connection on that port, there must be a source connected, hence a broadcast.

Why don't you just ask icecast whether it has any source connections?
You can do this by requesting /stats.xml from the server, and parsing
that.

MUCH easier than adding multiple port support.

Mike

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