HTTP interface -------------- I. Presentation ############### 1. VLC has a little HTTP server ------------------------------- You can launch the HTTP interface with : vlc -I http --http-src /directory/ --http-host host:port The HTTP interface will listen at host:port and will reproduce the structure of /directory at http://host:ip/ While exporting /director, some files are a bit special : * files beginning with '.' : they won't be exported. * file '.access' : It will be opened and http interface expect to find at the first line a login/password (written as login:password). This login/password will be used to protect all files in this directory. Be careful that only files in this directory will be protected, particularly sub-directory won't be protected. * file