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biztale
Streaming Star
6 years ago
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Kaltura Video Host Error : This certificate has expired impacts Streaming and Sign in

On Feb 10, 2020, the Security Certificate for Kaltura Host has expired.

Certificate provided by Let's Encrypt Authority X3.  

This is a backup host for my feed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scrambledbliss/bliss/master/feed.json

Github made a change and blocks Roku from seeing the feed as of one month ago.

Primary feed , hosted on https://api.myjson.com/bins/1flyp8

Kaltura Certificate error

Roku Direct Publisher
  • mitchstein's avatar
    mitchstein
    6 years ago

    I have to agree that I see zero reason for https for a video feed...

    No video transport requires any certificates...

    I've been streaming video since 1995, rdp, hls, IIS smooth, etc etc. I run my own windows IIS server and never ever had a certificate on it at all t any time. The only thing that ever happens is if one of th websites requires someone to log in for some reason they are warned that it is not a secured website, but since we do not sell anything nor store any sensitive user data there is zero rason that I need any real security for the users.. The server itself is as protected as is possible nad a certificate will not make one bit of difference..

    Gadget ran an article where they explain the crtificate process is so easy to hack that all it does is provide the illusion of security.. Besides 99% of the fishing websites, have certificates.. lol

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    • biztale's avatar
      biztale
      Streaming Star
      6 years ago

      I originally did, but then Kaltura reached out to me on my email and said. hey, that's not our host check with your provider. I dug a little deeper to see this a Kaltura Community Edition by my extended host Primcast. Needless to say, a network ticket has been created and now i'm in a holding pattern for a certificate to be issued. It also answered the other question that i started seeing on ROKU Direct Publisher today "There was a transport-level error - (CERT_HAS_EXPIRED). "

      I know this takes time to sort out, just nuts how videos have to be secured as HTTPS. Perhaps I will look how to convert the videos to http to bypass security requirements in the future.

      So does RDP allow non secure videos as a HTTP format?

      • 37mediagroup's avatar
        37mediagroup
        Roku Guru
        6 years ago

        I wouldn't think it'd matter. However your json feed lists the url as https, so Roku is going to https://blahblahblah  .com/video.mp4 etc to find the video, and nothing is there.  If you had a video at http://blahblahblah   com/videos/12345.mp4 it would likely work.

         

        As to https, I don't think it'd matter however its in the best interest of platforms like vimeo & brightcove to have an SSL.