[MPlayer-dev-eng] Authentication for RTSP( live555 plugin )

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

Ratin <stingrat <at> cox.net> writes:

> I wrote a RTSP server and trying mplayer with -user and -passwd options to 
> enable authentication. However even though
> I sent a "401: UNAUTHORIZED" and "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm= blah" 
> response for DESCRIBE command from the client, I dont see any re-submit of 
> DESCRIBE command from mplayer with encrypted username and passwd, the RFC 
> for http authentication says that should be the case. Anybody went thru this 
> problem or can comment on it?

Did you test your servers authentication with live555's test programs? It should
work with mplayer options user and passwd.

Carl Eugen