Re: Embedded WMP with SSL source

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Sorry no, the actual URLs are in an internal application I'm developing for a
client and the videos are private.

As for opening with WMP directly, good point. On the Mac, it doesn't work,
says the stream is not a recognised type. On the PC, yes it works fine. (As
it does with the embedded Active X player on IE)

Is it actually supported and possible to have wmv files playing in embedded
player on Mac and/or Firefox when the source URL is https? Even with my
stripped-down little tests on my local dev machine it doesn't seem to like
it...

Thanks for your support

Ian



"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> OK I guess I'm lost. Any chance of posting the URL - I can test it in
> all those combinations you've listed, to see what's common.
>
> Just out of interest, if you ignore the embedded part of the equation,
> and open the URL as written in the web page within the standalone
> media player on Mac / Win, does it work then ?
>
> Cheers - Neil
>
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:02:06 -0800, "iansugar"
> <iansugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Update on this one: With the embedded player (WMP 10) in Firefox, I
> >right-click the player and look at properties. The Location field shows
> >.\https://..., i.e. it has been prefixed with dot and slash. Doing the same
> >thing with IE, there is no dot and slash and it works. That could explain it,
> >but where did the .\ come from I wonder? Doesn't happen when the URL is http.
> >
> >On the Mac, I can't find out if the problem is similar because the embedded
> >player doesn't show any options. It just pops up a window saying "Cannot open
> >the file. Verify that the path and filename are correct and try again.".
> >Again, when the source is http, it works.
> >
> >Regards, Ian
> >
> >"iansugar" wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the prompt message.
> >>
> >> It was configured to use settings of the browser. I have now tried it with
> >> "Do not use a proxy server" but no difference.
> >>
> >> Note that it works fine with the embedded WMP in IE 6, even with https, but
> >> in Firefox and on the Mac it fails, where it did work with http.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any other ideas?
> >>
> >> "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:49:02 -0800, "iansugar"
> >> > <iansugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >For an intranet application, I'm streaming .wmv files and showing in embedded
> >> > >media player. With some experimentation with the markup, I can get this to
> >> > >work with IE 6 and Firefox on Windows (with WMP 10.0), plus Safari and IE 5
> >> > >on Mac OSX (with WMP 9.0).
> >> > >
> >> > >When the application is in production everything must be over SSL, but when
> >> > >I test this, the embedded player in Firefox on Windows, and in Safari or IE
> >> > >on OSX, fails. The only difference is the url switched to https rather than
> >> > >http.
> >> > >
> >> > >Anybody any ideas? Is it possible to do cross-browser embedded video over SSL?
> >> >
> >> > Do you have an http proxy that's blocking the https request URL ?
> >> >
> >> > On your standalone player, if you go to Tools -> Options -> Network,
> >> > for the http option, does the Proxy column say "None" or something
> >> > else ?
> >> >
> >> > If it *has* a value other than "None", then choose HTTP and click
> >> > Configure - does it help to choose "Do not use a proxy server" or
> >> > "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" (or maybe *specify* do not
> >> > use proxy for https://yadda address) ?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers - Neil
> >> >
>
>
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