Why Icecast2 does not want to give the stream through https?

Question

On a server with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed Icecast2 2.4.1 with SSL support. Also on this server work HTTPS website. I want insert on the page HTML5-player that will also take

Answer 1

icecast provided for debian based versions don't provide https support since it is supported by openssl libraries that have licensing difficulties with GPL.

to know if openssl was compiled with :

ldd /usr/bin/icecast2 | grep ssl

if is compiled with then a line like this one should de displayed :

libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1 (0x00007ff5248a4000)

else nothing...

to get correct version those should be obtained from xiph.org directly : https://wiki.xiph.org/Icecast_Server/Installing_latest_version_(official_Xiph_repositories)