[iberator]

why this is a problem? Streaming over Http just works - even on clients from 1999 like Winamp.

Why would you military grade encrypt radio service or static site anyway?

[bandrami]

To keep your ISP from slipping ads into the audio stream? To keep RIAA from finding out what you're streaming and suing you into oblivion?

[miki123211]

And, more importantly, to keep misconfigured network appliances from treating every resource on the web as HTML and trying to shove ads into it, breaking audio players.

[rustyhodge]

Because some browsers get annoyed and put up lots of alerts if they can't make a https connection

[jamesbfb]

Rusty, of SomaFM fame? What a blessing to see you here! Mega fan, proud SomaFM mug owner from Australia :)

[sneak]

A static site? Because any hop can inject arbitrary code which your browser will then execute.

TLS doesn’t just offer confidentiality, it also offers integrity.

[davidwritesbugs]

It doesn’t “just” work, I just implemented a streaming radio client and the http streams were a nightmare