# password protected streaming

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 4, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815 "2012-12-04T12:01:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Barry\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Barry\_Bernard](https://community.wowza.com/u/Barry_Bernard)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815/1 "2012-12-04T12:01:24Z")

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I have been asked about the possibility of password protecting some content on our Wowza server (3.5, flash and HLS streaming) After searching through the forums, it’s seems to me that the best way to do it would be to create a password protected secure site that would allow access to a player configured with RTMPS and secure token that accesses a streaming application on the Wowza server configured with RTMPS, secure token and hotlink protection. Is this the best way to do this or is there a better or easier method? Thanks.

Barry

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815/2 "2012-12-05T13:16:56Z")

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Barry,

Yes, that will work. Also take a look these examples/approaches:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-user-authentication-for-flash-rtmp-client-using-jdbc-connection-to-mysql-database](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-user-authentication-for-flash-rtmp-client-using-jdbc-connection-to-mysql-database)

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-file-based-rtmp-authentication-with-url-query-strings-onconnectauthenticate2](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-file-based-rtmp-authentication-with-url-query-strings-onconnectauthenticate2)

You might leverage your web based authentication in a Flash RTMP client by using actionscript ExternalInterface to grab credentials from a cookie in the player’s HTML container.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815/3 "2012-12-05T15:31:35Z")

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Yes it is. Add the querystring to the streamer

Richard

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**Author:** ![Barry\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Barry\_Bernard](https://community.wowza.com/u/Barry_Bernard)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815/4 "2012-12-05T08:29:51Z")

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Thanks, Richard. Is it feasible to set up the 2nd example you linked with jw player?

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**Author:** ![Barry\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Barry\_Bernard](https://community.wowza.com/u/Barry_Bernard)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/password-protected-streaming/37815/5 "2012-12-05T08:37:56Z")

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Many thanks.