[icecast-dev] icecast 2 auth problem with (old?) ices, MuSe

[Michael Smith]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 20:12, Mihai RUSU wrote:
> Hi Michael and thanks for answer!
>
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Michael Smith wrote:
> > This shouldn't be being passed to _check_pass_icy() at all - this isn't
> > the "icy" (shoutcast nasty ugly) protocol at all. We support that (icy)
> > protocol because it's widely used - but it's a horribly ugly hack to
> > pretend that it's HTTP-like. We're not adding more
> > not-HTTP-but-somewhat-similar protocols.
>
> Ok, let me get this straight, its a client bug right ? (ie ices, MuSe) In
> that case I need to update my ices ? (I thought both ices and MuSe use
> libshout for client-server low-level comunication in which case this
> libshout would need to be fixed). I will contact MuSe and ices devs if
> this is the case...

Well... no, it's a client problem, but not a bug. The problem is that your 
client is not configured to use a protocol icecast2 supports (ices can - but 
you may have to change some settings. I don't know about MuSe).

>
> Another question, if this is some old/broken protocol, is there a libshout
> version that supports some protocol to connect as a source to shoutcast,
> icecast1, icecast2 ?

Yes. libshout2.

Mike

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