Hello,
is there a way to protect an internet-stream ? I'm writing a program that plays streams from an IceCast-server.
This works very well, but the problem is that a user can easily find out the stream url when using a packet-sniffer.
So I was wondering if there's a way to "encrypt" a stream, or to paswordprotect it ?
grtz,
Patrick
Hello,
unfortunately I'm not aware about ways to protect an Internet stream: it's likely that this can be only done at server level, but it's just a guess.
Kind Regards
Severino Delaurenti
MultiMedia Soft
Hi,
In order to protect an internet stream you will, as Severino has mentioned, do this at the streaming server side.
If you're running Icecast, you can setup stream authentication. When a listener tries to stream, Icecast calls your script with some parameters. You can choose to accept or deny the request based on your business logic. You could use a username and password, IP address, some kind of cookie checking, etc.
Good luck.
Tim