Have been testing video with alot of different players and couldnt for the life of me get any protected .wmvs to work with a comp. that I installed Windows Media Player 9 Beta on. Here are the release notes for it which is fairly alarming and im sure will effect a bunch of you in here. Here it is from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/relnotes.asp :
Quote:
"Access Denied" errors
If you manage or host a site that features media, be aware that to increase the security of the Windows Media 9 Series platform, Microsoft has removed all support for the HTTP Basic Authentication protocol for streaming media.
Support was removed because the HTTP Basic Authentication protocol sends the user?s credentials over the network without the use of any encryption. This means that malicious users can monitor network traffic and obtain user credentials in streaming scenarios, because none of the streaming media protocols support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The Windows Media 9 Series platform components offer the Digest and Negotiate (NTLM/Kerberos) authentication protocols as replacements for the inherently insecure HTTP Basic authentication protocol.
For content that is served from a Web server using SSL (e.g., HTTPS://), you can still use HTTP Basic authentication with Windows Media 9 Series components. SSL provides a layer of encryption to help protect the end user credentials even when HTTP Basic Authentication is used. If SSL is not employed, HTTP Basic authentication will not work, and the Player will respond with the error "Access denied."
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Does anyone have any ideas? I imagine that putting them in a dir that is protected with .htaccess referer check may work, but I would imagine that there must be a more effective method. I really hate the thought of pulling my videos out of the members area and putting them in a dir that is checked by referer and or cookies which seem so easily spoofable. Please if anyone else has any ideas, I just see this as a huge future problem when its added to the windows update or some shit. I can just imagine all the emails right now...... The greatest thing is that it is impossible to unistall it from windows XP or ME. Read the release notes , only way to get it offf your system is to do a system restore. Does anyone else see this as a major issue once this thing is in release and starts coming installed on new os's (cant really figure out how you will do a system restore from a fresh install...)......
Rory
