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Kedare
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March 13, 2010
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How to protect the Publisher access ?

  • March 13, 2010
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Hi all !

I am looking for a Live video streaming service for my website that will be user at some hours each weeks, I now test Flash Media Server (it's great !),

but I would like to protect the publisher access to be sure the publisher is the right person (our staff) and not a viewer that directly connect to the publish point as publisher, is it possible to do that ? by example to protect the publisher access by password ? (but allow viewer to connect without password)

Thank you !

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    Anonymous
    March 13, 2010

    It depends on what version of FMS you buy.

    Streaming server currently has no means of preventing unauthorized publishers.

    With Interactive Server, you can authenticate publishers via server side actionscript or by a C++ plugin while still allowing subscribers to connect without being authenticated.

    When using interactive server, my preference is to provide credentials via quer string arguments on the rtmp url, but you could also provide credentials as arguments in your connect statement (assuming the publising client is a flash movie). Examples here:

    http://www.flashcomguru.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4551&PN=1

    Asa_-_FMS
    Adobe Employee
    Asa_-_FMS
    Adobe Employee
    March 15, 2010

    What jay says is almost entirely correct.  FMSS does have access to SWF Verification currently, and until more full authentication features are available there we're recommending if you can to use SWFV to make sure that rogue applications can't connect to your FMS.  This solves a big potential problem of allowing anyone to connect who knows your URI line.

    The remaining complication is if the application you're running is either designed to use a live encoder (in which case authenticating it currently needs the more powerful FMIS) - Adobe is aware of this pain point and working on it.

    Asa

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    Anonymous
    March 15, 2010

    What about Flash Media Server Authentication Add-in (optional)

    It work ok to me at lab tests:

    (FMIS 3.5.3)

    (FMLE 3)

    Best Regards,

    Sérgio Henrique

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