[icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

[Dave St John]

So you are saying a possible re-hack of toms sc_proxy.php script would work
better then implementing this within the icecast2 server itself?

A nice addition would be for the icecast2 server to look for a xml file
under the webroot called listener_auth.xml or whatever,
server looks for that file, if found it loads all pertnant information based
on mounts
<listener_auth ="/usernamegoeshere/">
    <User>nobodybutme</User>
    <Upass>holycow</Upass>
<!--local mount point must be a live mount point in order for listeners to
get the specified subscription stream-->
    <local_mount>/subscription-mount.ogg</local_mount>
</listener_auth>

o an example url would be
http://booh.com:8000/usernamegoeshere/
server recognizes that mount and authenticates and then sends the specified
local mount point that the listener signed up for.

Sounds easy but i know it probably isnt, anyways i think that would be a
good starting logic to implement.

<p><p><p>Dave St John
(CEO) Mediacast1.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "oddsock" <oddsock at oddsock.org>
To: <icecast-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

<p>> At 01:37 PM 11/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > >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.
>
> actually, as it turns out, this does make alot of sense, because most
> authentication/subscription logic is going to be fairly complicated and
> needs to be customizable for each "subscription service".  adding logic to
> icecast2 to do simple URL calls when listeners connect (the URL call
> validating the user and allowing/denying access) and letting the external
> scripts do all the necessary "subscription logic" is a nice easy way to
> setup a subscription service....
>
> just my experience :)
>
> oddsock
>
>
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