[streaming] RTSP server, authentication

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:30:02 +0100, tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
> My approach (which I'd like to discuss here) would be to insert some
> simple hooks (at the point of authentication and may be at the point of
> session teardown) which call into some plugin-registered functions doing
> the actual legwork (in my case, they'd do a lookup against a database).
> 
> Opinions? Flames?

If you need to look into a database, then you should provide a new plugin
class indeed. I would rather not see hard-coded SQL (or whatever) queries
in the HTTP daemon (whose code is already messy enough).

You probably need to modify the httpd code. If I recall correctly, it
currently expects a single user/pass pair for a given URL. Note that
vlc-devel at v.o is a more appropriate mailing list in this case.

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