Overview
Let's suppose that there is task to limit user access to server content on domain basis, e.g. allow users to watch a video from specified domain only. This task can be resolved with REST hooks.
In REST query of type 1 "connect" to the backend server, WCS sends the "origin" field that contains WCS server domain name by which user accessed to it, for example
{
"nodeId" : "5tWOFn5ZoMQs22KrEls2Ulhee57hQO9D",
"appKey" : "defaultApp",
"sessionId" : "/5.44.168.45:53438/abcdef0123456789",
"useWsTunnel" : false,
"useWsTunnelPacketization2" : false,
"useBase64BinaryEncoding" : false,
"mediaProviders" : [ "WebRTC", "MSE", "WSPlayer" ],
"clientVersion" : "0.5.28",
"clientOSVersion" : "5.0 (Windows)",
"clientBrowserVersion" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0",
"keepAlive" : false,
"origin" : "https://test2.flashphoner.com:8888"
}
So, REST hook of type 1 "connect" should be implemented to authorize user by domain.
The REST hook of type 1 implementation example to authorize by domain
Implementation requirements
1. REST hook of type 1 should be availabale on your web host as
http://yourhost/rest-hooks/connect
2. REST hook should allow POST application/json HTTP requests.
3. REST hook should return exactly the same body as received (mirroring), except restClientConfig configuration.
4. WCS сервер should be set up to work with REST hook as:
ssh -p 2001 admin@localhost >update app -l http://yourhost/rest-hooks defaultApp
REST hook using can be traced in WCS server logs
tail -f /usr/local/FlashphonerWebCallServer/logs/server_logs/flashphoner.log
The code of the example and its analysis
The first lines of the script define the method and decode the request body.. Here the domain for authorization is set:
<?php
$api_method = array_pop(explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
$incoming_data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
$domain = "yourdomain.com";
"connect" method handling begins. Here "origin" field value is defined and "restClientConfig" field for answer is filled:
switch($api_method) {
case"connect":
$origin = $incoming_data['origin'];
//logs
error_log("sessionId: " . $incoming_data['sessionId']);
error_log("origin: " . $origin);
$rest_client_config = json_decode(file_get_contents('rest_client_config.json'), true);
$incoming_data['restClientConfig'] = $rest_client_config;
Domain checking. If domain is no found, the ubnormalResponse() function is called to form negative response 403:
$found = strpos($origin, $domain);
if ($found !== false){
error_log("User authorized by domain " . $domain);
}else{
error_log("User not authorized by domain: " . $domain . " Connection failed with 403 status.");
ubnormalResponse(403);
}
break;
}
Successful response is returned
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($incoming_data);
ubnormalResponse() function completes the script:
function ubnormalResponse($code) {
if ($code == 403) {
header('HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden', true, $code);
} else {
header(':', true, $code);
}
die();
}
?>