[vlc-devel] [PATCH 9/9] lua: http: Announce the web interface over mdns

[Alexandre Janniaux]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 09:38:17AM +0200, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, at 10:13 PM, Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel wrote:
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> Both are good points, I suppose this should only be enabled explicitely by the user.
>
> Howerver I thought we didn't want to invest much on securing the interface because it was meant to be explicitely enabled & password protected, so I'm not sure we should wait for that to happen.
>
> I'll add a setting to enable the HTTP interface advertisement

I agree that it must not be exposed (even on local network)
until HTTP is a bit more secure, but it is probably ok if
disabled by default and enabled through an option.

That's a supernice patchset!

Regards,
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Alexandre Janniaux
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