XTension build 943 version 8.9.1

[James Sentman]

There is a something built into Safari (and mobile safari) that will not allow media files to play over a self signed certificate. I’ve verified this now. Either firefox or chrome will allow it however and the playback works well on them. I actually tweaked it a bit in that last release so that it is more reliable to autoplay on all browsers, but it only works over a non-encrypted connection when using safari. 

And while I failed to document it in the changes I listed, I a field to the certificate management window so that you can enter in your dyndns or other dns name. Chrome complains about the cert not being valid if this doesn’t match. So if you have myAwesomeXTensionServer.dyndns.org <http://myawesomextensionserver.dyndns.org/> as your dnsname you would enter that there and the cert woudl match and then Chrome will show a green https indicator too.

The problem is that setting up a signed certificate is just not easy. It’s not designed for our sort of situation. I’m experimenting with a $10 a year company now that I think will eventually work, but the process won’t be as automated as creating a self signed certificate. It will require steps like enabling the built in web server on MacOSX Server and putting a test file in there for the certificate company to hit and verify that you actually have access to the server dns name in question. There is also the problem about the IP address that it’s linked to not changing. Again certs are only really meant for regular servers with static IP addresses and I’m not sure what will happen when our IP addresses change.

It may be time to start looking at an XTension cloud solution to all this garbage that would SSL tunnel through all this garbage or remote connections. Future versions of iOS will be refusing to allow apps that don’t support SSL at all. So I have no idea yet what the final solution to all this will be, but at the moment you cannot use Safari to watch saved off video clips over an https connection. All browsers work fine with a non-encrypted connection. Chrome and Firefox work fine with a self signed cert. There is nothing I can do about that in the very short term, though if the signed cert for $10 a year works out I will provide tools to ease that install but it’s still going to be a pain.


> On Sep 10, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Brendan O'Dowd <bodowd at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> This might be a hint on my web remote video viewing issues. In this version when I open the video archive I get the error message below. I haven’t seen this one before.
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> 10/09/2016 16:37:20 XTRemote: movie player error: 100

Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com




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