Set username/password in rtsp url

Question

I am retrieving video from an IP-Camera using rtsp using a java web application; The rtsp url has embedded username/password in the url itself which seems to be quite insecure. e.g. rtsp://user:password@ip/... Is there a way to to prevent sending the username/password in the URL. What will be the best possible way to secure the URL?

Accepted Answer

Given a username and password, you can set them using environment variables like this:

```
USER=myusername
PASSWD=mypassword
```

For example, if your camera's IP address is 192.168.0.101, then you can access the camera via its RTSP URL:

```
rtsp://"${USER}":"${PASSWD}"@192.168.0.101:554
```

Set username/password in rtsp url

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