GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 556708
totem does not prompt for authentication on HTTP locations
Last modified: 2009-11-18 18:49:44 UTC
the bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/283909 "We have an icecast server which is used for private streams and so requires HTTP authentication. In hardy, totem would happily prompt for the information and store it in gnome-keyring. In intrepid, it does not seem to be able to do this. If the username/password are encoded in the URL (i.e. http://user:pass@server:1234/stream.m3u) it works fine, so this seems to just relate to the part which asks the user for the authentication."
We need to handle requiring mounting, and do the operation with GtkMountOperation.
See also bug 576038 comment 1 (attachment 131007 [details] [review]).
For locations that are handled by giosrc this is already fixed in GIT but for HTTP usually souphttpsrc is used. souphttpsrc provides properties for user/password but what's missing right now is a generic interface for authentication in GStreamer.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 601732 ***