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Anonymous
March 14, 2008
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Video Stream Protection, what version to buy

  • March 14, 2008
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Hi All!

I need to stream video files but verify that the user requesting the video has been approved to access it.

My idea is to use some sort of signature based authentication (ie: that the url passed to the media server has some data that the server can then look at and verify validity to allow access to the videos).

By reading at the docs, for some reason I get the feeling this can't be done in the Flash Media Streaming server, and that I need to use the Interactive edition. Is this correct?

Is there other sort of built in authentication that I should use instead with the FMS server?

I'm trying to find out so that I know for sure what product I need to buy.

Thanks in advance for your help!
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    Graeme Bull
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    Graeme BullCommunity Expert
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    March 15, 2008
    Flash Media Interactive Server is what you are most likely looking for if you want to do the authentication at the streaming server level. If you do this authentication elsewhere then the streaming version is just fine.
    Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    Thanks for the reply Graeme! Although I could write a servlet to do the authentication and pass the stream to the client from it, that seems to me, defeating the purpose of having the streaming server, since i could just as well get the files from the filesystem... (unless I'm missing other advantages)

    So the Interactive server seems to be the answer...

    Thanks a bunch!
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