[Icecast] Custom HTTP auth headers

[Philipp Schafft]

Good morning,

On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 22:09 -0700, Thiago Sousa Santos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to have my icecast client (libshout based) that would use the HTTP
> header:
> 
> "Authorization: bearer <token>"
> 
> as its authentication method. I didn't find documentation on how to do it,
> also couldn't find anything like that in libshout source code. Is this
> possible in the current code?

No.


> Additionally, if not possible, is this feature something interesting to
> have at libshout or should I use something else?

I actually thought about it several times the last year. However it has
not proven very useful to an Icecast based system because RFC 6750 which
defines it is missing a very important point: There is no way to inform
the client about the token. It is always transferred via a side channel
(from the HTTP perspective).

This not-so-little details renders it mostly useless in my opinion.

I wonder, why do you want it? No official Icecast can work with it
anyway?

Also feel free to join us for a little chat about it on IRC:
https://icecast.org/contact/#contact-info


With best regards,

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