To protect your content from unwanted downloads use the Secure Token option in the CDN Resource settings.

How it works

We receive a stream with no token protection, transcode it, and then deliver via our CDN network. Token gets added to VOD or stream URL after transcoding. Links with token looks like these:

https://cdn.example.com/streams/10_14/WG99BSGMdZIwKy/1552551429/playlist.m3u8 (live stream)
https://cdn.example.com/videos/44_aJ0o71wfUwJvFDklkjlcu/master.m3u8 (VOD)

Control Panel Settings

Go to the CDN Resources section, choose the Resource and click on the Settings button. Navigate to Advanced Settings -> Access (Security) -> Secure Token.

Activate the option, type in a signature key and click on the Save button. The signature key should contain 6-32 characters.

Three parameters are used for token generation:

• Expiration time,
• Path to the file,
• Key.

Leave the Add a client's IP to the token box unchecked.

Token Generation

Use the following php-script to generate URLs with token if needed.

PHP-script for live streams

<?php 
$secret = 'W39Hd509SeReT41p'; 
$vhost = 'cdn.example.com'; 
$client_id = '10'; 
$stream_id = '14'; 
$expires = time() + 10000; 
$link = "{$client_id}_{$stream_id}_${secret}_${expires}_"; 
$md5 = md5($link, true); 
$md5 = base64_encode($md5); 
$md5 = strtr($md5, '+/', '-_'); 
$md5 = str_replace('=', '', $md5); 
$url = "https://{$vhost}/streams/{$client_id}_${stream_id}/${md5}/${expires}/playlist.m3u8"; 
echo $url; 
echo "\n"; 

PHP-script for VOD

<?php
$secret = 'W39Hd509SeReT41p';
$vhost = 'cdn.example.com';
$client_id = '44';
$video_id = 'aJ0o71wfUwJvFcu';
$expires = time() + 10000;
$link = "{$client_id}_{$video_id}_${secret}_${expires}_";
$md5 = md5($link, true);
$md5 = base64_encode($md5);
$md5 = strtr($md5, '+/', '-_');
$md5 = str_replace('=', '', $md5);
$url = "https://{$vhost}/videos/{$client_id}_${video_id}/${md5}/${expires}/master.m3u8";
echo $url;
echo "\n";

Parameters:

• $secret — a signature key,
• $vhost — CDN Resource domain name,
• $video_id —  slug, an individual parameter in VOD's URL. You may find it in the VOD Page URL (VOD Settings -> Export -> Page URL) just after your account's ID. For example, in this URL https://cdn.example.com/videos/123_gnhWeEAA6LT, gnhWeEAA6LT - is a slug
• $expires  — URL expiration time (in seconds),
• $link — token generation schema,
• $url — URL.