On Nov 14, 6:43 pm, Mark Reginald James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Void wrote:
> > We have a secure application on the Internet that you have to log into
> > to use. We want to be able to display a video from a streaming media
> > server via this application. The streaming media server is behind a
> > firewall so I want my Rails app to proxy the stream to the user so
> > that the stream is not available unless you log in.
>
> > I know I can use send_file to just show the video file, but I prefer
> > to be able to use the streaming server so that the user does not have
> > to wait for the file to download before it starts to play.
>
> You could do this by having the action read from a streaming
> Net::HTTP get, while writing the fragments to Rails' output
> buffer.
>
> Have you also looked into adding a one-time authentication
> key to URLs passed to the streaming server?
>
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Thanks Mark. Yes, my next step was to go with some kind of one-time
authentication if I couldn't do the proxying.
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