return an image securely

[dee]

I'm building a custom interface for a wecam installation using the camera built in cgi commands. Does anyone know how i can return am image from the camera securely using php so the camera password/user isnt exposed. SO.... I can call the image in an img tag directly using this url:

http://1.2.3.4:88/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=usernamehere&pwd=passwordforcamera

What i'd like to do is call :

<img src="https://server/image.php">

And the php script return the image so passwords and ip's arent exposed browser side. Hope that makes sense . Thanks in advance for any help

 

[RobM]

Use your php to get the contents of the webcam into a variable. Then just echo the contents out but set the mime type.
eg
<?
// get the contents of the camera into a variable (say $contents)
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
echo $contents;
?>
It all depends on how the data is put out from the source originally.

 

[RobM]

ie

$contents=file_get_contents("http://1.2.3.4:88/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=usernamehere&pwd=passwordforcamera");

will place the output of the call to the variable. Then you can do what you want with it - save it to disk, display it etc

 

[dee]

Thanks @RobM

I just get a dead image icon so camera must be putting out something weird. If i download from original source url its just a .jpeg

 

[RobM]

Check it first in a page of its own - ie not in an img tag - just a page that will get the contents and display as mime type jpeg straight away

 

[dee]

Aaah... okay. It seems to show as as some cgi proxy