How to authenticate an HTTP request to remote server that can be utilize on end user browser?

Question

Details of the problem:

• There is one page which is actually a streaming to The Axis IP camera which spits MJPEG output

• It requires user to log in with the user name/password promp on browser

• I am using this stream to show video directly on a web page

• It shows video correctly but asks user to provide correct user name and password set for the camera

• I tried to logging in to this camera on server side using HTTP requests and then I realized I authenticated server request not the browser the end user is using.

So what I want is a method server side or client side, that can allow me to log-in to camera automatically when my end-users visit this page.

I am using asp.net with c# 2005

Thanks,

Vipul

Answer 1

One way to do this would be to build a proxy that sits between the user and the camera. For every new connection that comes in from the user, you open a backend connection to the camera and login first before streaming the data out.

Your asp.net page would talk to this proxy.