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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:02:07PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> 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?).

ok with me, besides i dont see tls and avoiding sending passwords in clear
as exclusive. tls/ssl had its security bugs, a second layer cant hurt if we
can do it without messy code


> 
> 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.

what is sctp used/needed for?
a quick look in the rfc makes it sound like a reinvention of tcp

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