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How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?
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If there was a Jellyfin app that supported adding a custom header to the server connection, you could set your reverse proxy to just let the connections with that secret key header through, and make everything else go through the extra auth middleware. But as far as I know, none of the Jellyfin apps have that feature, even though it has been requested. Lots of other selfhosted apps do have the feature though, and I use it in a few places as well.
Gotcha yeah, I did this for LunaSea with traefik forward auth for the arrs, but the lack of support in jellyfin clients is annoying. Though personally I've been waiting 5 years for Findroid to support transcoded streams / adjusting video quality so personally that's higher on my list of priorities.