It would be an interesting experiment to try this with the demo
Silverlight (ex WPF/E) player in the WPF/E SDK samples
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/asp/faq.aspx etc.
You never know, it might work... afaik Quicktime has limitations
talking to WMS and doesn't know how to operate the authentication
step.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:38:08 -0700, w2ks
<w2ks[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text] >Hi everyone,
>i'm currently writing an authentication plugin, and so far it's working on
>both PC and MAC. the problem i'm having is: on MAC, it can only work with
>WMP. it can't work with Quicktime plugin, Flip4Mac.
>
>as we all know, flip4mac plugin is required in order to play WMV file on MAC.
>
>the problem is: quicktime/flip4mac won't prompt the user for user name and
>password. However, WMP for mac DOES!
>
>i've tried various value of the GetFlags method of IWMSAuthenticationPlugin
>object.
>returning WMS_AUTHENTICATION_TEXT_CHALLENGE and
>WMS_AUTHENTICATION_CLIENT_SHOWS_UI resulted in Authenticate method of
>IWMSAuthenticationContext object not being called at all by the client with
>quicktime player.however, WMP can still call Authenticate and can
>authenticate the client successfully.
>
>when returning WMS_AUTHENTICATION_CLIENT_SHOWS_UI, the client will proceed
>to call Authenticate method, but won't prompt the user for username and
>password.
>
>I would really really appreciate any help/direction anyone can offer.
>
>thanks
>
>
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