From: Steve McMillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kicking off a user after a certain duration?
a more certain way to do this is to use the Authentication Extension for
the RealServer. It will cost you a little extra but it is probably much
easier and more reliable. You can set a calendar range for which a
given user has permissions to view (with resolution down to the second)
or you can set a total time duration. Instead of sending them a SMIL
file that is always changing the end time according when the user clicks
on the link you can just set a time range for a specific time. The
server handles the time management for you. One problem with putting
the end time in the SMIL is that someone could re-write the SMIL (if
they could figure out the link to the actual media files) so it did not
have the end time in it.
steve
RealForum wrote:
>
> From: "Clary, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Kicking off a user after a certain duration?
>
> A lot of us are doing things that don't have advertising... ;) I've looked
> at doing this since we have live satellite television networks that are
> subscription based but we sometimes sell access via the web to a single
> program on a particular day and rather than have a separate stream for that
> event we can point them there and limit how long they can watch at which
> time it kicks them off... when combined with password protection with
> expiration, it works great.
>
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