[Icecast] Playback of URL Authenticated Stream in Browser

[Brad Isbell]

Chrome and Internet Explorer *do* support passing in credentials in the
URL.  Can you narrow down the problem by firing up Wireshark and doing a
packet capture?  Then, post the request and response headers in a new
message so we can take a look.

Brad Isbell
brad at musatcha.com
http://www.musatcha.com

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Jay Nicholas <jaynicholas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm having trouble embedding my url-authenticated stream on my website on
> certain browsers. I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.
>
> My site offers a subscription to the stream where the username and
> password are system-generated and unique to the subscriber. The
> system-generated password is stored in the database and passed to the page
> based on which subscriber is logged in. Since the username and password are
> system-generated and unique to each subscriber, I'm not concerned about
> passing the username and password in the URL for the Icecast server
> authentication.
>
> Embedding the following URL in my HTML5 audio player works in Safari and
> Firefox:
>
> http://theusername:thepassword@myicecastserver.com/my-mount-point
>
> However, this method doesn't work in Chrome or Internet Explorer because
> these browsers don't support passing the username and password in the URL.
> (If I embed a mount URL in Chrome or Internet Explorer without
> authentication it works just fine so I know it's the authentication that is
> the problem. It's not a player compatibility issue.) In Chrome it still
> prompts for the username and password. In Internet Explorer it just simply
> doesn't work.
>
> Does anyone have any guidance regarding how I can pass the username and
> password authentication header with javascript, php, or another method?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay
>
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