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From: "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <buanzo@buanzo.com.ar>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:56:13 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E3ED6D.4030908@buanzo.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709091346.22633.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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Mick wrote:
> Yes I can, but I thought that exposing authentication details in plain text 
> config files is not particularly safe.  Isn't there another way?

Maybe you could add a PHP script on a web server near the webcam, and "proxy" the request over it.
(i.e the PHP script can do the authenticated request, and return to nagios the webcam's http response).

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-09 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-09 11:52 [gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios Mick
2007-09-09 12:07 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-09-09 12:46   ` Mick
2007-09-09 12:56     ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [this message]
2007-09-09 12:56     ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-09-09 13:16       ` Mick
2007-09-09 13:50         ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-09-09 13:57           ` Mick

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