Streaming Media

How to hide URI of streaming media.

[pageoneresults]

I've been searching for the past couple of hours for a way to effectively mask the URI of a stream from a third party provider. I can't find one.

What we have is a client who is housing their streaming on a third party server. That third party does not offer any form of encryption, etc. They leave it up to the client to protect the media links.

What I need to do is to be able to obfuscate the streaming media URI from the visitor. How can I do that with classic asp?

[wardbekker]

Hi pageoneresults,

Maybe an obvious solutions you already thought off:

Create an asp page that does a redirect to the stream URI. Only redirect if the refering url is correct one (www.example.com/nicevideo.html).

You can also check for a certain cookie that needs to be there and is only set by your website.

When I'm ripping a stream, I always look at the stream properties in for example Media Player. This will still be posible with the above method.

[wardbekker]

Thinking of it, one way that I never be able to circumvent (if that says something), is when you embed Media Player in your page, and only show the most basic controls, and disable the properties window. I'm not sure how that can be done, but maybe it's a pointer in the right direction. If someone wants to find the URI, it's always possible..but you can make it very hard ;-)

[pageoneresults]

Thanks wardbekker. I'm experimenting with the embedded media player now and have been for the past few days. Since I work with valid HTML, embedding the media player forces me to utilize invalid code and it's driving me crazy. ;)

Since the media is hosted by a third party provider, we lose a certain level of control in all of this. I have an email into the provider to see if they can do some form of referrer check and if it is not coming from the secure password protected area of the client's site that it is not a valid request.