[Icecast] Using authentication just for metrics

[Karl Heyes]

On 24/08/10 00:32, Nicholas Young wrote:
> Hey -
>
> I'm researching what it would take to just use authentication in Icecast
> (like the POSTing to a URL) for metrics, rather than actually authenticating
> the user.
>
> Icecast doesn't pass in the listener's IP address as part of the POST, or
> does it? If so, is there something I could turn off that would prevent the
> user from being
> prompted for authentication?
>

The IP is part of the POST sent by listener_add, and as long as you send 
back the icecast-auth-user header (and no other restrictions apply like 
max-listeners) then your listeners will not notice.

karl.