I have been using server side playlists in WMS as a way to protect content and provide good user experience in the case the requested content does not exists.
I simply point a WMS publishing point to an asp.net page which generates the SSPL according to the requested media and the requesting user's ticket (querystring variables in the URL f.ex. mms://myserver/PPoint?media=12&ticket=DRF94DP17).
If the user does not have permission to view the content, I can for example display a static JPG picture telling him so, else I can feed the media file to the user - without the user ever seeing the "real" path to the media file.
Since SSPL are not supported in Silverligt (and in fact only work properly in Windows Media Player), I cannot use SSPL for this.
Can you point out to me what possibilities I have?
- Write a custom WMS Authorization plugin?
- Write other kinds of WMS plugins?
- Dynamically generate an "IIS Web Playlist"?
Mar 31 2008 by