Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

[Graham Cobb]

On 28/11/16 14:01, Nick wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:58 +0000
> <d.lake at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Because I spend a lot of my time travelling, all my music and radio
>> downloads are stored on a cloud VPS server.   I can't really block
>> down by IP address because I don't really know where I'll be
>> connecting from.
...
> I recommend SSH for getting arbitrary services across the internet
> securely. Have it listening on port 443 and you can get to it from
> anywhere, even through restrictive firewalls.

An alternative, which I use for several services I want access to while
I am travelling, is to run Apache as a reverse proxy. I.e. run apache on
your VPS but configure it not to actually serve any content but set up a
Location which uses ProxyPass to connect to your get_iplayer.cgi running
on 127.0.0.1:8080 (or whatever -- but not running on the externally
visible IP address).

You can then protect access to that Location using the full power of
apache access controls. I use this to access my Tivo at home while I am
travelling, for example.

Of course, if get_iplayer.cgi can run as a real CGI process (I don't use
it so I don't know) then just provide access to that via Apache and
don't bother with the reverse proxy.