publishAuth

Publisher Authentication using Red5 Pro

This is an example of authenticating a Broadcast for stream playback.

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

Example Code

• index.html
• index.js

This example requires you to enable the SimpleAuthentication Plugin for the live webapp. More information: Simple Authentication Plugin.

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 connectionParams attribute of the subscriber configuration(s).

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

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

Example

In the example, a login form is provided to allow the user to enter in their username and password. 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 broadcast started:

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

^{[index.js #174](index.js#L174)}

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