Must the stunnel be used for nginx-rtmps?

[hongyi-zhao]

I've noticed the following contents from the git master version of nginx-rtmp-module:

$ egrep -inR 'ssl' .
./ngx_rtmp_handshake.c:11:#include <openssl/hmac.h>
./ngx_rtmp_handshake.c:12:#include <openssl/sha.h>
./ngx_rtmp_handshake.c:111:#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000L
./hls/ngx_rtmp_mpegts.h:13:#include <openssl/aes.h>
./config:132:USE_OPENSSL=YES
Binary file ./.git/objects/pack/pack-d7c34c8c57305af7f92dce3514b22136f4100ddc.pack matches
./README.md:68:Several versions of nginx (1.3.14 - 1.5.0) require http_ssl_module to be
./README.md:71:    ./configure --add-module=/path/to/nginx-rtmp-module --with-http_ssl_module
./test/www/jwplayer/jwplayer.js:9:b.isYouTube=function(a){return-1<a.indexOf("youtube.com")||-1<a.indexOf("youtu.be")};b.isRtmp=function(a,b){return 0==a.indexOf("rtmp")||"rtmp"==b};b.foreach=function(a,b){for(var e in a)a.hasOwnProperty(e)&&b(e)};b.isHTTPS=function(){return 0==g.location.href.indexOf("https")};b.repo=function(){var a="http://p.jwpcdn.com/"+d.version.split(/\W/).splice(0,2).join("/")+"/";try{b.isHTTPS()&&(a=a.replace("http://","https://ssl."))}catch(e){}return a}}(jwplayer),function(d){var a="video/",h={mp4:a+"mp4",

But I'm not sure whether the above messages can assure us of the native support for TLS without the help of Stunnel. Any hints will be highly appreciated.

Regards, HY

[successtheman]

For this container/repo stunnel is required for RTMPS. It is possible to use a modified nginx-rtmp-module with RTMPS support such as this one https://github.com/mannyamorim/nginx-rtmp-module but it hasn't been updated for some time, and it's just easier to use stunnel and not have to worry about it being updated. I am not sure how the container would react using the modified module anyway

I managed to get this container working with the new kick.com streaming service and I'll make a PR in the next few days adding how to get that working