Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

david at harleystreet.net david at harleystreet.net
Mon Nov 28 06:09:50 PST 2016


I don't understand the problem.

As explained at the url I gave...

A typical .htaccess file looks like the following:

AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My restricted Area"
Require valid-user

Then your .htpasswd is placed at the location referenced above.



> Yes, but that is for Apache, isn't it?
>
> I thought that get_iplayer.cgi ran as a Daemon (written in Perl).   How do I apply standard
> htaccess to that ?
>
> Please excuse me if I'm being a little thick today (or at least more than usual).
>
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> To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.lake at surrey.ac.uk>
> Cc: roger at firedrake.org; get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!
>
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>
>> The answer is going to be some .htaccess-like username/password.
>
> It's pretty simple to create a password file using something like this...
>
> http://www.web2generators.com/apache-tools/htpasswd-generator
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