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

[Luca Barbato]

On 03/24/2010 04:05 PM, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> 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.

The idea was to get it in feng, sadly right now the whole broadcasting
feature had been implemented using something quite custom using flux...

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

Indeed.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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