Streaming radio problems

[xdxx]

G'day. I am looking at WinGate as a possible proxy solution, but I'm having a few issues when I attempt to use streaming radio.

1) ID3 tags are stripped from the stream [station name, now playing etc] and replaced with "1010"
2) Playback is choppy/laggy every 2-3 seconds, although the player does not show the stream as buffering when this occurs [seems like it's caused by the proxy]
3) Streams which require authentication, and on a port other than 80, fail to connect. The one in testing is SKY.FM/DI.FM [Premium feeds] and only port 80 streams work with authentication. Non port 80 streams work fine if authentication is not required [ie the free streams]

When I bypass the proxy [not a viable solution] all of these issues are resolved. FreeProxy seems to pass the streams' metadata fine, and playback is smooth.

If you could shed some light on this [bugs?] then it'd be great. Thanks.

[adrien]

Hi

Are you using HTTP then for streaming audio?

Do you have any plugins installed in Wingate? E.g. Kaspersky AV for WinGate?

If you can give us a couple of links to test with we can have a look to see what's going on.

Regards

Adrien

[xdxx]

Yep, they are HTTP streams. I am not using any plugins, just a straight proxy setup.

Sample URLs [please remove spaces]:

Non port 80 URL: http ://h:ff230a9c723a584@160.79.128.22:8602
Port 80 URL: http ://h:ff230a9c723a584@160.79.128.23:80

Thanks. Sorry for the late reply.

[xdxx]

Any luck with replicating this?

Cheers.

[adrien]

Hi

Are you just using a browser for this?

I don't have any luck with those URLs. IE just immediately errors out on them without trying to make any request.

Adrien

[adrien]

p.s. I think that syntax for the url of http://user:pass@site:port is non-standard. I know it's used for FTP, but I've never seen it used for HTTP before. It's not actually part of RFC2616 (HTTP spec).

IE treats it as a single servername, which fails lookup.

FF warns you about being tricked into authenticating to a site.

Chrome doesn't seem to mind.

So I think it may be a browser function to parse this and convert it into auth credentials.

Anyway, what client are you using to access this?

Regards

Adrien

[xdxx]

IE 7 and later do not allow plaintext password authentication in URLs by default, so that would explain part of your problems *but* they're streaming radio URLs. They're not intended for use outside of a media player [I'm using Winamp 5.5x, which allows proxy specification] Firefox is warning you, because the site does not require authentication. It in fact does, as I have a premium radio subscription and multiple streams are run from the same server, but on different ports.

A pls file can be found here:

www.di.fm/listen/trance/128k.pls?ff230a9c723a584

The playlist has both a non port 80 stream [the first] and an alternate port 80 stream [the 2nd]. As you will see, the links I posted in my earlier post are just ripped from the playlist.

Cheers.


EDIT: The format you mentioned infact is quite common, and can be used in browsers such as firefox/opera/ie6 to automatically login to sites that require authentication, without having to manually enter the login details.