Re: [squid-users] RealVideo Content Protection

Hi Ray, long time no see. Glad to see that you are still around.

Upgrade, but you probably should make Squid do the authentication here..
referer is not a reliable mechanism for many reasons, but I assume you
know all that.

Regards
Henrik

Ray Taft wrote:
>
> I am using a squid farm to accelerate a content site.
>
> On that content site, we have videos protected by htaccess.
>
> Htaccess prevents people from hotlinking files off our server. I.e.,
> stealing bandwidth from us by using our files (images, etc) as src files to
> compile another page elseware on the net.
>
> So, we have streaming RealVideo files on this server.
>
> .RMA and RM files.
>
> The .RMA file is simply an ASCII pointer to the location of the .RM file,
> the actually video media.
>
> We are still serving the .RMA files from the content site, but use the
> pointer (.RMA file) to point the user to the cache server to retrieve the
> meat (The .RM File).
>
> Here is the problem. The .RM files are behind a password protected content
> site.
>
> What we would like to do is force the squid server to check the refer that
> comes through for the .RM file. If the refer came from the domain, IP,
> subnet (whatever) that we define in the squid server, then to serve the
> file. If the refer doesn't match, then don't serve the file.
>
> Any suggestions?
Received on Mon Mar 25 2002 - 20:20:54 MST