URL with credentials

[frakman1]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for making an awesome and useful utility like this.

After adding User Access Control, I would like to know what URL format to use that allows me to pass in the username and password directly without having to enter them in the popup.
I've tried these variations without any luck:

http://myuser:mypassword@ip:port/camera/mjpeg
and
http://ip:port/camera/mjpeg&u=myuser&p=mypassword

Any idea if this is possible or not?

[andrewkirillov]

Hello,

This is not possible at this point. Some code changes need to be done to support it.

cam2web uses Digest authentication instead of Basic. With Basic authentication you would be allowed to send user name/password in plain as you would like. However in Digest authentication a hash function is applied to password, so it is not send in clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication

May need to see what can be done. The best might be to default to Digest, but accept Basic as well if user chose to use it. If not, maybe a configuration option could be used.

[cvsandbox]

Just an update. Windows version was updated about 2 months ago to support Basic authentication, so user/password can be put into URL.

[frakman1]

Fantastic! Can you provide example syntax please?

[cvsandbox]

As you mentioned it before:
http://myuser:mypassword@ip:port/camera/mjpeg
or to access Web UI
http://myuser:mypassword@ip:port

I did not make an official buid. If you are happy to get latest code and build it, then you can test it quickly. Otherwise I can make a build.

The new version should accept both Digest and Basic authentication. However in configuration UI, there is an option to specify default method, which is requested from clients which are not yet authenticated.