[icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question
Scott Manley
djsnm at djsnm.com
Mon Nov 3 18:14:51 PST 2003
Heh, you have no idea how messy it can become.
Anyway, one easy-ish way is to have a script which does all the
authentication and then performs a redirect to the live server. I seem
to remember most media players correctly handled redirects.
The trick then is to make the redirect link expire over time.
<p><p>>
> 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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