[Icecast] Custom HTTP auth headers

[Jay George]

how can i be able to have my own streaming server ?????

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 6:42 PM Thiago Sousa Santos <thiagossantos at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 2:50 AM Philipp Schafft <
> phschafft at de.loewenfelsen.net> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I'm working on our own client that would require authentication to a
> service before users can stream from Icecast.
> The idea is that they authenticate and get a token from this service and,
> when connecting to Icecast, they sent this same token. Icecast will be
> configured to forward the HTTP header to the same service so that it can
> identify and authorize the user before it can receive the stream. This is
> still at the planning phase and, so far, the client would have to be
> specific to this service because of this authentication requirement. Is
> there a better alternative to this authentication that would work out of
> the box, assuming there is a separate service that needs also to auth the
> same users?
>
>
>>
>> Also feel free to join us for a little chat about it on IRC:
>> https://icecast.org/contact/#contact-info
>>
>>
> Thanks for the help, I just joined and I'm thiagoss.
>
>
>>
>> With best regards,
>>
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