return an image securely

dee · May 31, 2018

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:

HTML:

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

What i'd like to do is call :

HTML:

<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 · May 31, 2018

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 · May 31, 2018

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