[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add support for digest auth in the http and rtsp protocols

[Martin Storsjö]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Luca Barbato wrote:

> On 03/24/2010 01:02 PM, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > 
> >> On 03/22/2010 07:40 PM, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> As in subject - this series adds http digest auth support to http and 
> >>> rtsp.
> >>
> >> Nice, but.. Is that used anywhere in the wild?
> > 
> > It's used in all places where I get to decide, at least. :-)
> > 
> > Proper use case: Broadcasting to an RTSP server using the RTSP muxer. The 
> > privilege of broadcasting is password protected usually, and I don't like 
> > sending my passwords in clear text (aka http basic auth).
> 
> I was thinking about using rtsp over tls for that purpose, anybody would
> be against introducing an ssl library as optional dep for that? (Michael?).

That'd also be a quite good solution. Which RTSP servers support RTSP/TLS 
at the moment - I don't think DSS does, which is the one I'm using for 
RTSP broadcasting.

Nevertheless, digest support is not all that much code, and helps in 
current scenarios.

// Martin