[icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

[Dave St John]

Sure thats all fine and dandy but i think its more of a secure option for
the icecast2 server to handle
this internaly than a 3rd party script.

<p><p>Dave St John
(CEO) Mediacast1.com
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From: "Scott Manley" <djsnm at djsnm.com>
To: <icecast-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

<p>> 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.
>
>
>
> >
> > 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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