SubscribeAuth

Subscriber Authentication using Red5 Pro

This is an example of authenticating a stream for playback of an authenticated broadcast.

Example Code

• BaseTest.swift
• SubscribeAuthTest.swift

This example requires you to enable the SimpleAuthentication Plugin for the live webapp. More information: https://www.red5pro.com/docs/.

Authenticating

With the username and password known from the Red5 Pro Server webapps/live/WEB-INF/simple-auth-plugin.credentials file (if following the basic auth setup of the Red5 Pro Server), those values are provided to the parameters attribute of the R5Configuration instance delimited and appended with a semicolon (;).

For example, if you have defined the authorization of a username foo with a password bar, the configuration addition would look like the following:

let config = R5Configuration()
...
config.parameters = "username=foo;password=bar;"

Example

In the example, the username and password values are defined in the test.plist file entry for the Subscribe - Auth test. They are accessed and provided to the R5Configuration instance prior to establishing a connection:

// Set up the configuration
let config = getConfig()
let username = Testbed.localParameters!["username"] as! String
let password = Testbed.localParameters!["password"] as! String
config.parameters = "username=" + username + ";password=" + password + ";"

// Set up the connection and stream
let connection = R5Connection(config: config)
self.subscribeStream = R5Stream(connection: connection)

SubscribeAuthTest.swift #22

If the provided credentials match those defined for the live webapp in its Simple Authentication properties, then the playback will begin as normal. If the credentials do not match, the playback request will be rejected.