[Icecast] Tracking Listeners with Key and other parameters

[Philipp Schafft]

Good morning,

On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 12:00 -0500, Alex Hackney wrote:
> I do have control over the headers. The webapp is built in php.

Ok.



> So the ideal path would be.
> 
> 1) Client hits my web app for the m3u file.
> 
>      http://webapp.com/station-aac/listen.m3u
> 
> 2) I create a session id and send that back with the icecast server path(s)
> 
>      http://east.icecastserver.com/station-aac
> 
>      http://west.icecastserver.com/station-aac
> 
> 3) Client makes request to icecast and the url auth sends the request 
> for auth back to the app where we log the session id again from the 
> header as starting a session
> 
>      http://webapp.com/listener_joined
> 
> 4) App returns the ok to icecast and the server begins the stream.
> 
> 5) If the client drops and reconnects to icecast it already has the 
> session in the header for the icecast path and we're good to go.

Yes.


> As far as source goes, since im sending the client to the web app first 
> for the header and server path, I can take that query string there or 
> just have a uri for the source.
> 
> 
> http://webapp.com/station-aac/listen.m3u?source=alexa
> 
> OR
> 
> http://webapp.com/station-aac/alexa/listen.m3u
> 
> http://webapp.com/station-aac/android-app/listen.m3u
> 
> http://webapp.com/station-aac/whatever/listen.m3u

Yes. But again, it's not a good idea to have that session string in
there, at least not with a non-namespaced parameter.


> Thanks for your help.

No problem.


With best regards,

> 
> On 11/27/2018 5:13 AM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> > This depends on if you control the HTTP(s) request made by the "app". If
> > you do, you can add a extra HTTP header in the request. How that is done
> > depends on the framework/lib/API you use for the app.
> >
> > Note that the header must be collision free with existing and future
> > headers. So likely you want it to start with "X-". Such as
> > "X-MySuperApp-Session".
> >
> > Then you can configure Icecast to send that header as part of the auth
> > request as you already found out in the manual.
> 

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