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Prashanth Krishnan
Prashanth Krishnan

Reputation: 17

azure media services - How to secure my Video URL from users Downloading it?

We are using Windows Media Server 2003 and 2008 for delivering videos on one of my project.

Authorization URL Plugin is enabled in it - By this i can generate a dynamic secure URL by forming a Hash code(With IP etc). So that the URL can not be bypassed or used by others.

Now i am planning to switch to Windows Azure Media Services, Can i configure Authorization Plugin or any such security for my URL inside Azure?

As i don't want users to access or steal my videos.

Best Regards,

Prasanth.k

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1367

Answers (1)

astaykov
astaykov

Reputation: 30903

No, you can't use any standard Windows Media Server plugins with Azure Media Services. But if you do take a look at the documentation, you will see that all media is protected by default in Azure Media Services:

If read carefully and follow all reference documentation you will see that first step of all actions is creating AccessPolicy. For example:

IAccessPolicy accessPolicy = _context.AccessPolicies.Create("File Download Policy", TimeSpan.FromDays(30), AccessPermissions.Read);

So, you generally can't really provide plain/raw/full/limitless access to your assets, unless you really want to. In other words - content in Media Services is protected by default.

Upvotes: 2

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