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 See https://github.com/Nesseref/html5-livestreaming for an example of using the python side of this project to provide authentication for an HTML5 (HLS with JS web player) environment.
 
 # PHP
+**Note:** the PHP web stuff (i.e. not auth.php) is intended as an example of the sort of frontend functionality that can be constructed to interface with the authentication backend. Do **_not_** use these scripts in production, as they were not designed for actual use.
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 Requirements:
   - Nginx with RTMP module (https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module)
   - a MySQL server