# Wowza Streaming Engine Playback Security

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-playback-security/48125>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 7, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-playback-security/48125 "2017-02-07T18:01:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Adarsh\_Agarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Adarsh\_Agarwal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adarsh_Agarwal)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-playback-security/48125/1 "2017-02-07T18:01:21Z")

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Hello all,

I was trying out the playback security feature in the wowza streaming engine installed on my pc and I was unable to play the published stream and it showed this error :

[rtsp @ 0x7f0a5c009260] method DESCRIBE failed: 403 Forbidden=0/0

rtsp://wowza\_ip:1935/live/myStream.sdp?wowzatokenhash=NTQ2MTJmMjMyNzMyMGYzNmVkYTlhOWQ3MDZkNTBiYjY5YjA4MmE0NWQ1MmQwMjI4MzdmOGJlNzA0ZTE3ZDAyOSAgLQ: Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)

I had generated the hash required using sha256sum available on ubuntu and then converted it to base-64 encoding using base64 command. Can anyone please tell me where I am going wrong ? Do I have to specify anything in the URL when I push the stream to the server ? I am pushing the stream using FFMPEG. It is an rtsp stream from an IP Camera.

Commands used :

ffmpeg -i rtsp://camera\_ip/live.sdp -c copy -f rtsp rtsp://username:password@wowza\_ip:1935/live/myStream.sdp (to push the stream to server)

ffplay -fflags nobuffer rtsp://wowza\_ip:1935/live/myStream.sdp?wowzatokenhash=NTQ2MTJmMjMyNzMyMGYzNmVkYTlhOWQ3MDZkNTBiYjY5YjA4MmE0NWQ1MmQwMjI4MzdmOGJlNzA0ZTE3ZDAyOSAgLQ (to play it back)

Thanks in advance,

Adarsh

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**Author:** ![Jermaine\_Hemby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@Jermaine\_Hemby](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jermaine_Hemby)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-playback-security/48125/2 "2017-02-09T03:04:11Z")

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Hello

Thanks for contacting Wowza Forums

Wowza does not support secure RTSP streams.

Hope this helps.

regards,

Jermaine