Archive for August, 2010

Ready to use – Red5 streamer with stream security

As RTMP continues to grow, and Red5 triumphs as the only open source RTMP server alive, there are concerns to protect your application from misuse. The following red5 application implements stream security for both playback and publishing. You can edit the files – allowedHTMLdomains.txt and allowedSWFdomains.txt and add the domain names that you want to be able to [...]

August 26, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Java, Red5, RTMP  23 Comments

Hacking Private Channels Of Ustream

Recently working on a custom player implementaion on ustream.com using their api, i found a huge loophole that i would like to share.  Ustream lets you create public/private channels and then broadcast on them using fmle or swf based publisher. Private channels can be password protected, so only people with right password can view it. [...]

August 13, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: General  8 Comments

Red5 Remoting

Remoting a facility by which a client can call a server method in a  request response fashion. Unlike RTMP remoting services are performed using AMF over HTTP/HTTPS. Red5 can act as both a RTMP server as well as a HTTP/HTTPS remoting server. Remoting enables non rtmp clients to access Red5 methods.  A very practical approach [...]

August 3, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Java, Red5  No Comments


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