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Hi,
I've been testing the Access Control Profile feature in the KMC to determine how I can restrict access of video content to only members of our community, i.e. people coming from the virginia.edu domain. It appears that the domain feature in the Access Control applies to the host where you place your Kaltura video references. For example, if I copy the object code for a media entry (via the preview and embed feature) into an HTML page that is physically located on the server lib.virginia.edu, then I can create an Access Control to play from only that domain and apply it to the media item. This means that this media item can only be accessed from HTML pages that reside on the lib.virginia.edu site.
If I want content restricted so that only people from virginia.edu can see it without caring where the media reference resides on the web, how do I do that? One of my colleagues indicated that a Kaltura employee said you do that by adding some configuration parameter to the code you place in your HTML pages. But I can't find any documentation here on the Kaltura site that provides insight on how to do this. Has anyone else needed to do this and figured out how it is done?
My other concern is that putting this in the player configuration does not prevent someone else from coming along and viewing the source and grabbing the video reference and placing it somewhere else and removing the parameter that restricts who can access it if done in the player code.
The only solution I can come up with is that I apply the domain rule via the KMC Access Control Profile to all media items that need to be restricted. Then from the host where the content can be played, I put in HTACCESS restrictions.
Anyone else have any other thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Jack
Hi Jack,
what do you mean by
If I want content restricted so that only people from virginia.edu can see it without caring where the media reference resides on the web
?
do you refer to virginia.edu as a network domain?
meaning:
if the webpage is on www.your-custom-domain.com/player.html
and you would like only people browsing to that page from a computer, which is on the virginia.edu network, to be able to access?
So I followed up with a co-worker and discovered that she was told to change the player id in the object code when you copy and paste the movie reference into your web page. Doing this of course would imply that you need to have created a new player in the KMC and that player is configured to restrict access at the domain level. But I can't find any option in the KMC > Studio > New single player features that allow me to restrict the domain access. Is there a special parameter that you add under the additional parameters and plugins section to do restrict content access to users coming from a specific domain?
Thanks,
Jack
BTW, changing the player id value without creating another player did not do anything the content continues to play in the default player.