Protecting an internet-stream

[Daxmon]

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

[Administrator]

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

[timley]

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