[Live-devel] RTSP server extending

[Ross Finlayson]

>On 10/04/07, Vlad Seryakov <vlad at crystalballinc.com> wrote:
>>I may use it in the closed network environment where i do not
>>authenticate by user name only but using IP address and/or MAC address
>>in addition.
>
>I faced the same problem where the server should reject clients based
>on the camera url-ip address. The solution was to patch RTSPServer
>class to add to it the following function:
>
>  virtual Boolean checkClientAccess(int clientSocket, char const* urlSuffix);
>
>The default implementation returns true meaning that there is no
>restrictions on cleints. A subclass can override it to return false
>under some conditions. In that case RTSPServer replies with 401
>Unauthorized without setting any digest headers.

Thanks for the patch.

I have now added your patch to the code (although I changed the name 
of your function to "specialClientAccessCheck"), and have included it 
in a new release (2007.04.20) of the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" 
software.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/