[vlc] Re: User Authentication.

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005, Gopal Parivallal-A20301 wrote :
> Hello,
> I am using VLC as a client for RTSP server which runs in the Set top box. I
> have taken a RTSP server code from live.com. RTSP supports digest
> authentication mechanism to verify username and password for valid user. I
> would like to know that can't we enable pop-up window when the user forget
> to give his username and password from VLC ? Ofcourse we can enter the
> username:password at rtsp url, but it seems the entering password is like
> open text and visible to everyone. Instead of this mechanism I would like to
> put some pop-up window to enter the user name & password(like *****). Is it
> available already from VLC ?? Please help me regarding this. Thanks in
> advance.
>  

This is not implemented currently, and wouldn't be trivial to do given
VLC's architecture I guess (but possible).

-- 
BigBen

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