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• 09-08-2009, 12:13 PM

  scarekrow76 Joined on 09-08-2009, 4:04 PM Posts 3

  Windows Media Services Plugins Reply Contact Hiya. I'm hoping someone might be able to send me some sample code or point me towards a tutorial or blog post... I've just dived into the world of Windows Media Services. For a current project I need to be able to restrict access to certain WMV files housed upon a streaming media server. For various reasons, the best method to do this (as far as I can see) is to use a URL Referer plugin for Authorization, so that the WMV files can only be embedded and accessed from a specific website. As WMS can't handle this out-of-the-box it looks as though I will need to write a custom plugin. Oh dear! If anyone has a better idea, I would be very glad to hear it.

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• 09-12-2009, 2:05 PM

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  chriskno Joined on 07-10-2007, 10:22 PM Redmond, Washington Posts 48	Re: Windows Media Services Plugins Reply Contact If all the valid requests will be coming from a specific website, would IP Address authorization meet your needs?  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770273.aspx  -Chris Chris Knowlton Program Manager, IIS Media Services blog: http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno
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• 09-14-2009, 4:19 AM

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  scarekrow76 Joined on 09-08-2009, 4:04 PM Posts 3	Re: Windows Media Services Plugins Reply Contact Wouldn't the detected IP address be that of the end user attempting to view the video file?

• 10-09-2009, 11:38 AM

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  prakashd Joined on 10-16-2007, 3:33 PM Redmond Posts 29	Re: Windows Media Services Plugins Reply Contact An easy alternative would be to use Active Script plugin and write a small plugin to authorize based on the referer header.  This should be easy to get it up and running fast but may not be very efficient for a high traffic site (since you are running a script for each user request)