on_publish/on_play URL not working with HTTPS URLs

[emanspeaks]

I repeatedly was receiving errors upon starting the Nginx server stating that an invalid port was specified on the on_play and on_publish lines of my config file. I later realized this was because I specified URLs starting with https://. Once I changed these to http:// URLs, Nginx would start successfully.

While for my use case HTTP without SSL is acceptable, these directives should ultimately support HTTPS URLs as well, particularly if these are being used for authentication purposes.

@emanspeaks
I confirm the same fault, but you can solve this using the following trick (i checked, it works):

http {
 server {
        listen 8334;
        server_name  127.0.0.1;
        location /publisher_auth {
                    proxy_buffering off;
                    proxy_set_header Host $host;
                    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                    proxy_pass          https://host.com/publisher_auth;
         }
    }
}

rtmp {
        server {
              #  ....
                application publisher {
                                on_publish  http://127.0.0.1:8334/publisher_auth;
                             #  ....
                }
        }
}