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Ah good old videogames.com. Yeah premium podcasts are already a thing. There's no need to "figure out an API to let people use their license keys on third part
by mikewhy 8y ago
Ah good old videogames.com.
Yeah premium podcasts are already a thing. There's no need to "figure out an API to let people use their license keys on third party players", it's simply HTTP Basic authentication embedded in the URL. Should work just about anywhere.
- ascagnel_ 8y agoI'm also a premium subscriber; while they used to use basic HTTP auth, they've since switched to generating revocable, per-user keys. It's both better for security and easier for podcast clients to manage.
- voxadam 8y agoBy "revocable, per-user keys" do you mean each user is given a unique URL to download premium content from or is some type of cryptographic DRM being leveraged?
- foobarandgrill 8y agoI'd imagine it's a token in the request headers
- __david__ 8y agoI doubt it's request headers since that would require the podcast player to set them. Putting it in the URL itself would make it work with every player on the planet.
- ascagnel_ 8y agoYup; you get a URL to the premium feed with a unique hash on the end.
- mikewhy 8y agoOh nice. I was a premium subscriber for years but never bothered using the premium podcast URLs. The ads can be pretty funny.