[Live-devel] New LIVE555 version - supports (optional) RTSP server connections via TLS

[Ross Finlayson]

I have just installed a new version (2021.11.14) of the “LIVE555 Streaming Media” code that allows a RTSP server to support connections via TLS.
To enable this, call:
	setTLSState(<certFileName>, <privKeyFileName>);
on your newly-created "RTSPServer" object (before you enter the event loop to start handling requests) - where <certFileName> is the (string) pathname of a certificate file, and <privKeyFileName> is the (string) pathname of a private key file - both in PEM format.  At present, this implementation does *not* serve SRTP (encrypted RTP/RTCP), and so does not accept "rtsps://" URLs.  (This will change in the future.)

If you want to access a (LIVE555) RTSP server via TLS using a LIVE555 RTSP client, then the server will need to be be running on port 322, otherwise the LIVE555 RTSP client implementation will not know that it needs to connect to the server using TLS.

(Of course, this requires OpenSSL, so will *not* work if you’re compiling with “-DNO_OPENSSL=1”.)


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/