Icecast - Nov 2014 - Password authentication problem with IOS and Android HTML5

Hi,

I have been using password protected MP3 streams for a number of years 
but I've hit against a problem. Neither Android or recent versions of 
IOS work with password protected MP3 streams.

Now Android has dropped Flash, IOS doesn't work any more and more and 
more people expect to use their mobile devices to hear the streams. This 
is getting difficult.

I know this isn't a problem with Icecast. I have filed a bug report to 
the Android issue tracker here with a test stream to illustrate the 
problem. If you have any Android or IOS devices feel free to try.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62632

I am just curious if anyone else has encountered this problem and if 
there are any known work-arounds to make it work.

Regards...

On Nov 18, 2014 8:55 AM, "Simon Blandford" <simon at
bkconnect.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been using password protected MP3 streams for a number of years
> but I've hit against a problem. Neither Android or recent versions of
> IOS work with password protected MP3 streams.
>
> Now Android has dropped Flash, IOS doesn't work any more and more and
> more people expect to use their mobile devices to hear the streams. This
> is getting difficult.
>
> I know this isn't a problem with Icecast. I have filed a bug report to
> the Android issue tracker here with a test stream to illustrate the
> problem. If you have any Android or IOS devices feel free to try.
> https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62632
>
> I am just curious if anyone else has encountered this problem and if
> there are any known work-arounds to make it work.
>
> Regards...
> _______________________________________________
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> Icecast at xiph.org
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The protected stream works in Firefox on the android phone. In my
experience xiialive player (available in google playstore) works well with
protected ogg streams.

Rajil
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Thanks. I've just also found another work-around for Chrome/Android. I 
have yet to test it on IOS.

If the username and password is injected into the URL it works. This can 
be done with some Javascript on the HTML5 player i.e.

<source src="http://username:password at
myicecastserver.org/mystream.mp3" />

On 18/11/14 15:47, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2014 8:55 AM, "Simon Blandford" <simon at
bkconnect.net
> <mailto:simon at bkconnect.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using password protected MP3 streams for a number of years
> > but I've hit against a problem. Neither Android or recent versions
of
> > IOS work with password protected MP3 streams.
> >
> > Now Android has dropped Flash, IOS doesn't work any more and more
and
> > more people expect to use their mobile devices to hear the streams.
This
> > is getting difficult.
> >
> > I know this isn't a problem with Icecast. I have filed a bug
report to
> > the Android issue tracker here with a test stream to illustrate the
> > problem. If you have any Android or IOS devices feel free to try.
> > https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62632
> >
> > I am just curious if anyone else has encountered this problem and if
> > there are any known work-arounds to make it work.
> >
> > Regards...
> > _______________________________________________
> > Icecast mailing list
> > Icecast at xiph.org <mailto:Icecast at xiph.org>
> > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
>
> The protected stream works in Firefox on the android phone. In my 
> experience xiialive player (available in google playstore) works well 
> with protected ogg streams.
>
> Rajil
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Icecast mailing list
> Icecast at xiph.org
> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
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