Blacklist a stream in session with a Wowza Streaming Engine server listener and HTTP provider

The BlacklistStreams server listener and HTTP provider for Wowza Streaming Engine™ media server software enables you to persistently blacklist streams published to your Wowza media server.

Contents

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Prerequisites
Installation
Configuration
Properties
Usage
For developers

Prerequisites

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Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0.0 or later is required.

Installation

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1. Download wse-plugin-blackliststreams.zip.
    
2. Extract the contents from the downloaded (zipped) package, and then copy the wse-plugin-blackliststreams.jar file from the package to the lib folder in your Wowza Streaming Engine installation ([install-dir]/lib).
    
3. Restart Wowza Streaming Engine.

Configuration

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Adding the server listener

To enable the server listener, add the following server listener definition to your server in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. See Configure server listeners for details.

Adding the HTTP provider

To configure the HTTP provider:

1. In a text editor, open [install-dir]/conf/VHost.xml and navigate to the Admin Hostport section in the file:

   <!-- Admin HostPort -->

2. In the <HostPort>/<HTTPProviders> container, insert the BlacklistStreams HTTP provider before the final <HTTPProvider> entry in the container:

   <HTTPProviders>
   ...
   	<HTTPProvider>
   		<BaseClass>com.wowza.wms.plugin.blacklist.HTTPProviderBlacklistStreams</BaseClass>
   		<RequestFilters>blacklist*</RequestFilters>
   		<AuthenticationMethod>admin-digest</AuthenticationMethod>
   	</HTTPProvider>
   	<HTTPProvider>
   		<BaseClass>com.wowza.wms.http.HTTPServerVersion</BaseClass>
   		<RequestFilters>*ServerVersion</RequestFilters>
   		<AuthenticationMethod>none</AuthenticationMethod>
   	</HTTPProvider>
   </HTTPProviders>

3. Save and close the VHost.xml file, and then restart the media server to apply the changes.

Properties

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The following properties can be set for the server listener. See Configure properties for details.

Usage

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To blacklist a stream:

1. Start your Wowza Streaming Engine media server, and then open the following URL to the Stream Blacklists page in a web browser:

   http://[wowza-ip-address]:8086/blacklist

   Where [wowza-ip-address] is the IP address of the Wowza media server.
    
2. When prompted, enter the credentials that you use to sign in to Wowza Streaming Engine Manager.
    
3. Publish your first stream, and then in the Stream Blacklists page, click Check for new streams. Your new stream will be displayed in the Published Streams list.
    
4. Click the Blacklist link next to the published stream to add that stream to the blacklist. This will also stop the stream. Any subsequent attempts to publish to that [app-name]/[app-instance]/[stream-name] sequence are rejected until you remove the stream from the blacklist.

For developers

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• Get the blacklist streams source code on GitHub