Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

[d.lake at surrey.ac.uk]

"Am I missing something?"

Sorry, but yes you are.    It is not running as a cgi script pulled from a webpage - it is running as a bit of Perl scripting which just happens to have a .cgi ending.

So, it is NOT a web-based cgi script which I could protect.  It is a Perl Daemon that runs detached and listens on the port you declare it to listen on.

(I hope I wasn't being overly blunt/rude just then; thanks for the advice.  Wish it was a simple as an htpasswd/htaccess file :-( )

-----Original Message-----
From: david at harleystreet.net [mailto:david at harleystreet.net] 
Sent: 28 November 2016 14:37
To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.lake at surrey.ac.uk>
Cc: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

You protect the directory where the cgi file is located and then folk can't run it because they can't access it.

Am I missing something?


> Correct, but that is not how the cgi script runs.  It is not a regular 
> Apache/HTTPD cgi-bin
>
> It runs as a Daemon.  It doesn't read from a directory so it won't 
> pick up any htaccess/htpassword.
>
> I think I need to put a password module into the cgi script.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david at harleystreet.net [mailto:david at harleystreet.net]
> Sent: 28 November 2016 14:10
> To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.lake at surrey.ac.uk>
> Cc: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!
>
> 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).
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: david at harleystreet.net [mailto:david at harleystreet.net]
>> Sent: 28 November 2016 14:00
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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