Icecast - Jun 2014 - icecast 2.4 check if source exists?

hello,

i've upgraded to 2.4. in order to use url-auth etc.
works fine, but now i have a problem:

i've to check if a source exists. i did so by fetching
headers for a mountpoint, example 

wget -S http://server:8000/test

if a mountpoint existed in icecast 2.3.2 (my previous version),
it returned something like "200 OK", when a source was connected.

now in 2.4. it always returns 200 OK, means the stream at this 
mountpoint exists, whether a source is connected or not.

how can i check (programatically) if a source / active mount 
exists or not?

thx, uno

That's not sounding right. I'll check later today if I can reproduce it.

TBR
On Jun 6, 2014 3:38 PM, "uno" <un at dom.de> wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i've upgraded to 2.4. in order to use url-auth etc.
> works fine, but now i have a problem:
>
> i've to check if a source exists. i did so by fetching
> headers for a mountpoint, example
>
> wget -S http://server:8000/test
>
> if a mountpoint existed in icecast 2.3.2 (my previous version),
> it returned something like "200 OK", when a source was connected.
>
> now in 2.4. it always returns 200 OK, means the stream at this
> mountpoint exists, whether a source is connected or not.
>
> how can i check (programatically) if a source / active mount
> exists or not?
>
> thx, uno
>
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... to answer myself: 

i had a fallback-mount specified, after removing it
things work as expected. sorry for the noise.

btw: what's the prefered way to get server and/or listener info?

for example, within a script (php / curl), i use
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/listclients?mount=/mymount
for getting info on listeners 

is there a better way / api?

thanks, u.












uno:
> 
> hello,
> 
> i've upgraded to 2.4. in order to use url-auth etc.
> works fine, but now i have a problem:
> 
> i've to check if a source exists. i did so by fetching
> headers for a mountpoint, example 
> 
> wget -S http://server:8000/test
> 
> if a mountpoint existed in icecast 2.3.2 (my previous version),
> it returned something like "200 OK", when a source was connected.
> 
> now in 2.4. it always returns 200 OK, means the stream at this 
> mountpoint exists, whether a source is connected or not.
> 
> how can i check (programatically) if a source / active mount 
> exists or not?
> 
> thx, uno
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Icecast mailing list
> Icecast at xiph.org
> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast

On 06/06/2014 01:08 PM, uno wrote:
> ... to answer myself: 
>
> i had a fallback-mount specified, after removing it
> things work as expected. sorry for the noise.
In case of fallbacks you have to check properly through querying a
custom XSL, JSON or the admin backend.

> btw: what's the prefered way to get server and/or listener info?
http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.0/icecast2_stats.html

> for example, within a script (php / curl), i use
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/listclients?mount=/mymount
> for getting info on listeners 
If you need IPs and UA strings then that's the only option. Plain
numbers you can get easier.
Note:
- as you noticed listclients instead of listclients.xsl gives you raw XML
- you can get mount specific information using the mount specific
credentials, you don't have to use admin credentials.
> is there a better way / api?
see docs link above.

Cheers

Thomas