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Secured HLS setup with Nginx as media server

This example is part of this article.

This is an example for an HLS delivery with basic security. Nginx compiled with nginx-rtmp-module & secure-link is used as media server. Features:

• Domain filtering
• Referrer filtering
• Embed buster

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<?php

/**
 * @param $baseUrl - non protected part of the URL including hostname, e.g. http://example.com
 * @param $path - protected path to the file, e.g. /downloads/myfile.zip
 * @param $secret - the shared secret with the nginx server. Keep this info secure!!!
 * @param $ttl - the number of seconds until this link expires
 * @param $userIp - ip of the user allowed to download
 * @return string
 */