[Icecast] Icecast2, ezstream and reverse proxy

["Thomas B. Rücker"]

Hi,

On 05/23/2014 09:34 AM, Hoggins! wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you get from Icecast *is* HTTP.

For a listener, Icecast is just an ordinary HTTP 1.0 server.
For a source client Icecast used to be a non-standard extension and used
the SOURCE method. We've deprecated this in 2.4.0 and now support PUT.
He's trying to connect a source through a reverse proxy.

> Anyway, we use proxying because on our server, some of our clients
> cannot connect to port 8000 without bypassing their company firewall,
The preferred method here is to make icecast bind to port 80.

> and we don't have the possibility to add another public IP.

That sucks, but is not an Icecast problem, dirty workarounds ensue.

>  So with
> Apache, here is what we do :
<snip />
Make sure you have a _high_ number of MaxClients or your Apache will
throw a fit after the first few listeners connect and not serve your
websites anymore.
Also Apache is not that great at handling many long-lived connections.
If you really know how to set up an high performance reverse proxy, you
won't have to ask how to handle Icecast, everyone else should really
avoid this kind of setup.

> And it works like a charm, and allows us to benefit from the HTTP 1.1
> "Host" header, and use it in a virtual host.
> The filter simply rewrites the listening URL served by the Icecast pages
> to routable addresses and routable ports.

It will break some features of the web interface, unless you start
messing with the replies on the fly.
Also your Icecast logs will be mostly worthless.

> I would agree this is not the most elegant way to do, but we don't have
> a choice here.

You have a choice, but decided to accept the trade-off. You always have
a choice.


Cheers

Thomas

>
> Cheers !
>
> Le 23/05/2014 10:59, "Thomas B. Rücker" a écrit :
>> On 05/21/2014 10:51 PM, David Hendry wrote:
>>> Ezstream is working well locally with Icecast2 on port 8000 on a Debian Wheezy platform. However, I use a reverse proxy (Pound) to pass all requests from the Internet for x.mysite.com to backend localhost:8000 i.e. my Icecast2 server.
>> The short answer is: don't put Icecast behind a reverse proxy.
>>
>>>  This works fine, i.e. x.mysite.com brings up the Icecast2 Status page. My problem is with the ezstream xml configuration <url></url> setting which must have a port number, and if I put <url>x.mysite.com:8000</url> icecast2 does not get the stream. If I use NAT on my router to bypass the reverse proxy, x.mysite.com:8000 goes straight to Icecast2 and everything works; but I don't want to do it this way. Do you have any ideas as to what I can do to get  ezstream working with icecast2 and my reverse proxy?
>> You are trying to put non-HTTP traffic through a HTTP reverse proxy, I'm
>> not the least surprised that this fails.
>> There /might/ be a slim chance to get things working better if you
>> switch to Icecast 2.4.0 AND use a source client that uses PUT instead of
>> SOURCE. But only if the reverse proxy supports PUT.
>>
>> Your reverse proxy might still have problems with the long-lived TCP
>> connections and other things specific to Icecast.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Thomas
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