Client configuration for Source Specific Multicast

This document describes how to configure your web browser to launch SSM sessions from web pages generated by Jon Miyake's (miyake@darkwing.uoregon.edu) URD CGI script.

• If you need an SSM image for your last-hop Cisco router, contact Greg Shepherd (shep@cisco.com) for help.
• If you have information about other router vendor's support for URD please let me (hak@oregon.uoregon.edu) know and I'll add info to this page.

Before you can launch sessions from the URD CGI web pages, you need to configure your web browser. Once you have set the MIME-type/application association in your web browser, the application should launch when you click on a program link.

Here are the configurations I have documented. I will add more as I get time.

• Netscape:Unix:Mim
• Netscape:Windows:IPTV
• InternetExplorer:Windows:IPTV

Netscape:Unix:Mim

NB: In this example I assume you are using a modern version of Netscape under Linux. The screenshot images are from Netscape 4.72. If you are using an different browser, the dialogs might not look exactly the same. If you aren't configuring MIM, you can find the correct MIME-type association for a given application in app-mime.txt.

1. Download the collection of wrapper scripts for MIM and the Berkeley tools. These scripts are required to overcome netscape's limitations in handling helper applications. I'll assume you have installed these scripts in /usr/local/bin. If you don't have root access, you can install these scripts in your home directory. Just make sure you adjust the path accordingly.
2. The dialog to configure the application/MIME-type association is hidden in Edit --> Preferences --> Navigator--> Applications
   
3. Create a new MIME-type association with settings

   Description

   mim: mpeg for unix

   MIMEType

   application/sdp-mim

   Suffixes

   .sdp

   Application

   /usr/local/bin/urd-wrap.pl %s

   

Netscape:Windows:IP/TV

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InternetExplorer:Windows:IP/TV

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