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

[Luca Barbato]

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?).

In the same topic I'd like to port the sctp code from nemesi to ffmpeg,
that would require a dep on libsctp on linux.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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