[Live-devel] How to restrict stream from being viewed by more than one user?

Matthew Czarnek mczarnek at edge360.com
Fri Mar 20 07:29:07 PDT 2020


 Thanks Ross, we are already doing this. But we're trying to use this for a
high security application, so would be great to add extra layers of
protection. My boss feels this one is important, is there some function
that is triggered upon a new stream starting up?

Matt

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:34 PM Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>
wrote:

> Why don’t you simply add authentication (i.e., one or more
> <username>,<password> pairs) to the RTSP server?  Then, only a user that
> knows the username and password will be able to access the stream.
>
> This is very easy to do.  For example note the code
> “testOnDemandRTSPServer.cpp” in the “testProgs” directory, and note the
> code (starting at line 59) bracketed by
>         #ifdef ACCESS_CONTROL
>         #endif
>
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
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