Icecast - Oct 2014 - Playback of URL Authenticated Stream in Browser

Hello!

I'm having trouble embedding my url-authenticated stream on my website on
certain browsers. I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.

My site offers a subscription to the stream where the username and password
are system-generated and unique to the subscriber. The system-generated
password is stored in the database and passed to the page based on which
subscriber is logged in. Since the username and password are
system-generated and unique to each subscriber, I'm not concerned about
passing the username and password in the URL for the Icecast server
authentication.

Embedding the following URL in my HTML5 audio player works in Safari and
Firefox:

http://theusername:thepassword at myicecastserver.com/my-mount-point

However, this method doesn't work in Chrome or Internet Explorer because
these browsers don't support passing the username and password in the URL.
(If I embed a mount URL in Chrome or Internet Explorer without
authentication it works just fine so I know it's the authentication that is
the problem. It's not a player compatibility issue.) In Chrome it still
prompts for the username and password. In Internet Explorer it just simply
doesn't work.

Does anyone have any guidance regarding how I can pass the username and
password authentication header with javascript, php, or another method?

Thanks!

Jay
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Jay Nicholas:
> Does anyone have any guidance regarding how I can pass the username and
> password authentication header with javascript, php, or another method?

i'd use ajax / XHTTP-requests, maybe within jquery.
see for example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5507234/how-to-use-basic-auth-and-jquery-and-ajax

Chrome and Internet Explorer *do* support passing in credentials in the
URL.  Can you narrow down the problem by firing up Wireshark and doing a
packet capture?  Then, post the request and response headers in a new
message so we can take a look.

Brad Isbell
brad at musatcha.com
http://www.musatcha.com

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Jay Nicholas <jaynicholas at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm having trouble embedding my url-authenticated stream on my website
on
> certain browsers. I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.
>
> My site offers a subscription to the stream where the username and
> password are system-generated and unique to the subscriber. The
> system-generated password is stored in the database and passed to the page
> based on which subscriber is logged in. Since the username and password are
> system-generated and unique to each subscriber, I'm not concerned about
> passing the username and password in the URL for the Icecast server
> authentication.
>
> Embedding the following URL in my HTML5 audio player works in Safari and
> Firefox:
>
> http://theusername:thepassword at myicecastserver.com/my-mount-point
>
> However, this method doesn't work in Chrome or Internet Explorer
because
> these browsers don't support passing the username and password in the
URL.
> (If I embed a mount URL in Chrome or Internet Explorer without
> authentication it works just fine so I know it's the authentication
that is
> the problem. It's not a player compatibility issue.) In Chrome it still
> prompts for the username and password. In Internet Explorer it just simply
> doesn't work.
>
> Does anyone have any guidance regarding how I can pass the username and
> password authentication header with javascript, php, or another method?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay
>
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