Secure Flash Audio Player and ColdFusion

I'm looking for a Flash Audio Player that has the ability to prevent downloads. I found a great player, TSPlayer (http://www.tsplayer.com/), unfortunately it required PHP for the security feature. Does anyone know of a flash audio player that has a CF back end? or is back end agnostic? Heck, we don't even need it all that secure, we just need to hide the URL of the audio. TIA! -jeff

Jeff Price wrote: > I'm looking for a Flash Audio Player that has the ability to prevent downloads. > Heck, we don't even need it all that secure, we just need to hide the URL of the audio. Audio that is served through HTTP can not be protected. You need Flash Media Server to serve your audio through RTMP streaming. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/protecting_video_fms.pdf Jochem

> Heck, we don't even need it all that secure, Handy, as you can't stop people recording their audio out. > we just need to hide the URL > of the audio. You can't. Not even using RTMP or any other sort of streaming. What are you trying to achieve ? Single use streams ? Only allowing 'registered' clients to connet ? -- Tom Chiverton **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

The easiest way to do that is to pass a single use token to the player through FlashVars, than call a CF script with the token to return the audio. !k I'm looking for a Flash Audio Player that has the ability to prevent downloads. I found a great player, TSPlayer (http://www.tsplayer.com/), unfortunately it required PHP for the security feature. Does anyone know of a flash audio player that has a CF back end? or is back end agnostic? Heck, we don't even need it all that secure, we just need to hide the URL of the audio. TIA! -jeff

Hello Kevin, Can you explain a little further- or perhaps even provide a simple sample code. It seems like your method will work on securing flv paths on FLV players as well. Thanks in advance. Mike > The easiest way to do that is to pass a single use token to the player > through FlashVars, than call a CF script with the token to return the > audio. > > !k >

Hi Mike, This method has been used to secure resources loading into Flash for a long time and works rather easily. To use this method, you should learn about FlashVars so that you can pass your encrypted token to Flash. Your token can be any number of things, but I would suggest a combination of a Unique ID( uuid() ), some other random characters and the actual id of the 'ticket'. Flash decrypts it, verifies that it's legitimate, than re-codes it along with the requested file and sends it to the server-side. The server-side receives the request and validates the token, than processes the request and returns the file. I dug up an example that was built for the Flash Media Server, but the process is similar and should work well. http://echo.ryerson.ca/authentication/ !k Hello Kevin, Can you explain a little further- or perhaps even provide a simple sample code. It seems like your method will work on securing flv paths on FLV players as well. Thanks in advance. Mike > The easiest way to do that is to pass a single use token to the player > through FlashVars, than call a CF script with the token to return the > audio. > > !k >

Checkout http://flowplayer.org/player/advanced.html#antileeching This player already has an anit-leeching feature partially built-in into the player itself. So as Kevin described, all you need to do is build the uuid token authentication handling on the CF side.  I believe the player handles both have flv and mp3s. Have fun guys. Michael ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----