AndrewFG;580811 Wrote: 
> For example it seems that protected login applies to the HTTP interface
> on port 9000 as well as to the CLI interface on port 9090. This may
> mean that Whitebear can't offer the SBS album art Url to the UPnP
> client because the client also needs login credentials in order to
> download the images.

Hi Phil,

I have been thinking deeply about this. If you choose to set up
Squeezebox Server to require authentication of clients that is your
choice. But given your requirement for authentication it is certainly
not the role of the middleware (in this case Whitebear) to try to
circumvent the authentication scheme by interpolating itself between
the client and the server.

Therefore I decided that will NOT add such proxy/authentication server
capability to Whitebear. If you want your UPnP Control Points to
download the artwork (and also MP3 streams) from Squeezebox Server,
then you must ensure that the UPnP Control Point client provides the
necessary credentials on its own behalf.

I have tested it with Windows Media Player, and at least this client
does have the capability to provide credentials and authenticate itself
against Squeezebox Server. However, I am pretty sure that you will find
that some of the UPnP Control Points out there do not have that
capability.

However, notwithstanding the abopve, I have posted a new version of
Whitebear on my web site that fixes the other authentication related
issues that you mentioned in your earlier e-mail. (Such as the 5
character limit, and the socket error).


-- 
AndrewFG

Regards,
AndrewFG

http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver
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