HTTPProvider and Basic HTTP authentication

Wowza Developer Dojo
1

Hi!

I’m writing a Wowza extension in a form of a custom HTTPProvider and I’m trying to use basic authorization… The problem is that when I test my REST “api” with WRONG credentials a NPE is thrown inside doHTTPAuthentication. When I supply the CORRECT credentials, doHTTPAuthentication returns TRUE, as expected. DIGEST authentication on the other hand works flawlessly.

Why do I need to use basic and not digest authentication is a matter for another discussion. :slight_smile:

Stack trace:

==> logs/wowzamediaserver_access.log <==
2013-01-22      12:24:47        CET     comment server  ERROR   500     -       java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.wowza.wms.authentication.AuthenticateBasic.authenticateHTTPProvider(Unknown Source)
        at com.wowza.wms.http.HTTProvider2Base.doHTTPAuthentication(Unknown Source)
        at org.company.video.wms.module.RestApi.onHTTPRequest(RestApi.java:32) <- my class
        at com.wowza.wms.http.HTTPRequestAdapter.service(Unknown Source)
        at com.wowza.wms.server.ServerHandler.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.wowza.wms.server.ServerHandler.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.wowza.wms.server.ServerHandler.messageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at com.wowza.wms.server.ServerHandlerThreaded.messageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain$2.messageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain.callNextMessageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain.access$900(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain$EntryImpl$1.messageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.filter.codec.support.SimpleProtocolDecoderOutput.flush(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.filter.codec.ProtocolCodecFilter.messageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain.callNextMessageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain.access$900(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.common.support.AbstractIoFilterChain$EntryImpl$1.messageReceived(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.filter.executor.ExecutorFilter.processEvent(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.mina.filter.executor.ExecutorFilter$ProcessEventsRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I’m using HTTProvider2Base.doHTTPAuthentication in this way:

[B]if (!doHTTPAuthentication(vhost, request, response)) {[/B]
2

You have to set the AuthenticationMethod of the HTTPProvider to “admin-basic”, then restart Wowza. Then load using http url like this form

http://richard:myPwd@[wowza-address]:1935/filterName

Richard

3

I see that too. Thanks for the report and clarification. I will forward to engineering

Richard

4

It will be fixed in 3.5.1 patch 1. That will be next patch but I don’t have an exact time frame.

Thanks again,

Richard

5

Actually this will be included in the 3.5.1 installer or the patch that upgrades to 3.5.1. These should be coming soon.

Richard

6

You can see from the stack trace that I already did what you have suggested me.

com.wowza.wms.authentication.AuthenticateBasic.authenticateHTTPProvider

7

Thanks for clarifying this!