[Icecast-dev] HTTP Basic Auth alternative

[dtouch3d completely]

Thank you, somehow I missed that.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Micheil Smith <micheil at brandedcode.com> wrote:
> Fairly certain icecast does support SSL, and if not, you could just use an SSL terminator in front of it.
>
> – Micheil
>
> On 13 Jan 2015, at 17:33, dtouch3d completely <dtouch3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> It would be ideal if icecast would get the credentials from the GET
>>>> parameters, something similar to
>>>>
>>>> http://example.com:8000/mystream?user=username&pass=password
>>>
>>> You can do that if you use the URL auth backend:
>>> http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/auth.html#url
>>
>> Thanks! Appending parameters to the url is possible because it passed
>> to the external url in the mount property, and icecast doesn't mind
>> serving the right mount point. I don't remember seeing this in the
>> docs though, I think it would be good addition.
>>
>> Also, sorry about the HTML, gmail changed the format to "rich text"
>> for some reason.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:25 PM, renan jegouzo <renan at aestesis.org> wrote:
>>> Would be better to try directly https protocol, to be more secure.
>>
>> You are right, that would be more secure. The credentials are now sent
>> unencrypted. But this means icecast must support this functionality
>> and I have not seen anything in the docs. Is this supported ?
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