[Libav-user] rtsp base64 encoded credentials

[Richard Lince]

Excellent Richard you're correct,
Thought I must be missing something here. I've tested with multiple 
FFMPEG / Live555 rtsp server implementations with success.
Cheers and keep well.


On 13/04/2020 21:24, Richard Hussong wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:43 AM Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com 
> <mailto:onemda at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 4/13/20, Richard Lince <richard.lince at bluebox.video> wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I've done a little more digging with a bug which I believe must
>     be quite
>     > common, string parsing at "av_url_split" for authentication
>     extraction.
>     > The issue exists in v4.2.2.
>     >
>     > line 4817 - libavformat/utils.c
>     >
>     <https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/554576b6cfe79a91d37e14d3617ca417562085db#diff-b45fad75a4dfb82ef50e978d38dc2649>
>     >
>     > ls = p + strcspn(p, "/?#");
>     >
>     > This does not permit  passwords or user names with the characters:
>     > "/?#"
>     >
>     > Can anyone confirm this to be the case or not please.
>
>
> I believe you are expected to URL-encode special characters anywhere 
> in the URL. See, e.g., the page 
> https://support.brightcove.com/special-characters-usernames-and-passwords
>
>     >
>     > example:
>     >
>     "rtsp://admin:bob#bob@192.168.0.1:544/27f255e7-07be-38b7-83a3-fec9072713de
>     <http://bob@192.168.0.1:544/27f255e7-07be-38b7-83a3-fec9072713de>"
>     >
>     > last commit (however always perhaps broken)
>     >
>     https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/554576b6cfe79a91d37e14d3617ca417562085db#diff-b45fad75a4dfb82ef50e978d38dc2649
>
>     Please try latest ffmpeg build version.
>
>
>     >
>     > Cheers.
>     > Rich.
>     >
>     > On 08/04/2020 16:42, Richard Lince wrote:
>     >> Hi,
>     >> I'm looking at a way to use a base64 digest string as input
>     into the
>     >> "avformat_open_input" call for the credentials portion.
>     >> Sure that you would normally use:
>     >> rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.30/live/ch00_0
>     <http://user:pass@192.168.0.30/live/ch00_0>
>     >> format as an example, however, this format does not account for
>     >> invalid characters that are valid password characters, examples:
>     >> @password
>     >> password/\""
>     >> password/""password/""
>     >> password""password""
>     >>
>     >> Perhaps a method exists that I'm unaware of, any ideas welcome.
>     >> Cheers,
>     >> Rich.
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Richard Lince,
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