subscribeStreamManagerProxyRoundTripAuth

Subscriber Authentication using Red5 Pro

This is an example of authenticating a Subscribe for stream playback using RoundTrip authentication.

Please refer to the Basic Subscriber Documentation to learn more about the basic setup.

Example Code

• index.html
• index.js

This example requires you to enable the SimpleAuthentication Plugin with RoundTripValidator for the live webapp. More information: [Simple Authentication Plugin](https://www.red5.net/docs/special/authplugin/overview

Authenticating

A subscriber client logs in into the business application server using known username and password attributes. The application server authenticates the credentials & issues a token to the user.

The user then connects to the Red5 Pro media server using the username, password and token (optional) parameters, with the intent of subscribing a stream. The media server transmits the username, password and optionally the token to the application server along with the stream name and the request type (subscribe).

The application server returns a json to the media server indicating whether the subscribe should be allowed or not for the given username, password & stream name. The media server then accepts or rejects the client request accordingly.

Passing of the token param is optional and depends on the SimpleAuthentication Plugin's RoundTripValidator configuration.More information: [Simple Authentication Plugin](https://www.red5.net/docs/special/authplugin/overview

For example, if you have defined the authorization of a user foo with a password bar along with a token value of mytoken, the configuration addition would look like the following:

connectionParms: {
  username: 'foo',
  password: 'bar'
  token: 'mytoken'
}

Example

In the example, a login form is provided to allow the user to enter in their username, password and a token. Those field values are added to the respective properties in the connectionParms attribute of the configuration(s) upon submit of the form, and the request to subscribe started:

submitButton.addEventListener('click', function () {
  configuration.connectionParams = {
    username: usernameField.value,
    password: passwordField.value
    token: tokenField.value
  };
  start();
});

The example works for both the WebRTC and Flash fallback subscribers.