Restricting LIVE feeds by IP address

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Originally posted by: charlie832
You would need to add ip checking inside of the application.onPublish(client,stream) function, this gets called when a user attempts to publish a stream. client.ip would return the address of the publisher. a simple application.disconnect(client) would probably do what you need if the ip isn't matched.

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Thanks a lot!! You got me on the right track. I invoked the Powers Of Google and eventually came up with this:

function getAllowedIPList() {
var AllowedIPFile = new File ("AllowedIPList.txt") ;
AllowedIPFile.open("text","read");
application.AllowedIPList = AllowedIPFile.readAll();
AllowedIPFile.close();
delete AllowedIPFile;
}

application.onPublish = function(pClient,myStream) {
var isAllowed = false;
getAllowedIPList();
for (var index=0; index<this.AllowedIPList.length; index++) {
var currentIP = this.AllowedIPList[index];
if (pClient.ip == currentIP) {
isAllowed = true;
trace(pClient.ip + ": is on whitelist");
break;
}
}
if (isAllowed == false) {
trace("Rejecting Encoder connection from: " + pClient.ip);
application.disconnect(pClient);
}
}

The encoder connects, appears to be streaming but constantly drops connection and reconnects. Not quite as good as having the door slammed in its face but the net result is that the encoder won't be able to push a feed live unless its ip is in the AllowedIPList file...