[mythtv-users] MythWeb: ASX stream or direct download (over ADSL)?

[James Miller]

On Mon, 11 May 2015, dennis wrote:

> I have turned on password protection for mythweb in Apache and having an 
> issue when I try to stream the asx files.
>
> I thought the player would prompt for credentials needed to access the ASX 
> file from the server, but that doesn't happen. However, if I do modify the 
> ASX file manually by adding the login/password to the URL, it streams just 
> fine.
>
> Doesn't work:
> <REF HREF = "http://10.0.0.101:444/secure/mythweb/pl/stream/1071/1430964000" 
> />
>
> Works:
> <REF HREF = 
> "http://guest:guest@10.0.0.101:444/secure/mythweb/pl/stream/1071/1430964000" 
> />

Interesting to know about that workaround. I hadn't thought of trying 
that. Now I at least have a way of testing how streaming might work over 
an ADSL connection, without any re-encoding.

> Any ideas on how to make this work without needing to modify the ASX file 
> manually?

I think this will be a question for someone who's pretty conversant in web 
servers and/or Apache. I certainly don't have any ideas. I would only add 
that I am using AuthType Basic rather than AuthType digest for 
authentication on my set-up. Is that the way you configured yours as well?