[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 03/22/2010 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).

// Martin