[icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

[Dave St John]

>I can have a look at implementing this when I get chance.
That would be great as the devs at shoutcast have absolutely no interest or
so it seems in adding this feature, which causes people
to rely on 3rd party scripts to handle the authentication, which is shotty
at best.

<p><p>Dave St John
(CEO) Mediacast1.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Heyes" <karl at xiph.org>
To: <icecast-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

<p>> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:54, Dave St John wrote:
> > Good question Amy, here is a snippet of the icecast2.xml file that i do
> > believe is for this function
> > ---------------------
> >     <mount>
> >         <mount-name>/test2</mount-name>
> >
> >         <username>admin</username>
> >         <password>holycow</password>
> >
> >         <max-listeners>1</max-listeners>
> >         <!-- <dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file> -->
> >         <fallback-mount>/example2</fallback-mount>
> >     </mount>
> > ------------------------
> >
> > Someone please correct me if i am wrong.
>
> This is for the source login, not the listener.  At the moment there's
> no listener login authentication, it's been mentioned before but hasn't
> been implemented yet.  I can have a look at implementing this when I get
> chance.
>
> > Dave St John
> > (CEO) Mediacast1.com
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "AMY E. BEAM" <beamae at email.uc.edu>
> > To: <icecast-dev at xiph.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:46 PM
> > Subject: [icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have stumbled upon your email address in my search for
> > > finding an answer to a problem I'm looking into for school.
> > >
> > > I attend the Univ. of Cincinnati and am working on my Senior
> > > Design Capstone project. I am working with a local
> > > independent radio station, WOXY, which is interested in
> > > updating its streaming radio to Icecast. I have taken this
> > > project under my wing and have tried to determine if it's
> > > doable.
> > >
> > > My question is that WOXY would like to have a subscription
> > > service to their Icecast server so that they could stream
> > > more then 56Kb to their users. However I have been unable to
> > > find any documentation for Icecast 2 that says they have user
> > > login capability. I see that Icecast 1 does use a flat text
> > > file for general user login. Do you know if Icecast 2 is
> > > planning anything like this? Do you have any suggestions as
> > > to where I can find out this information?
> > >
> > > I really appreciate your help and look forward to your answer!
>
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