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Appendix

URL Commands for the Network Camera

Overview

For some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, the Network

Camera/VideoServercanbeeasilyintegratedthroughURLsyntax.Thissectionspecifiestheexternal

HTTP-based application programming interface. The HTTP-based camera interface provides the

functionality to request a single image, control camera functions (PTZ, output relay etc.), and get and set

internal parameter values. The image and CGI-requests are handled by the built-in Web server.

Style Convention

InURLsyntaxandindescriptionsofCGIparameters,textwithinanglebracketsdenotescontentthat

is tobereplaced with eithera value ora string. When replacing thetextstring,theangle brackets

shouldalsobereplaced.Anexampleofthisisthedescriptionofthenamefortheserver,denotedwith

<servername>intheURLsyntaxdescriptionbelow,thatisreplacedwiththestringmyserverintheURL

syntaxexamplefurtherdowninthepage.

URLsyntaxisdenotedwiththeword"Syntax:"writteninboldfacefollowedbyaboxwiththereferenced

syntaxasshownbelow.Forexample,nameoftheserveriswrittenas<servername>andisintendedto

be replaced with the name of the actual server. This can either be a name, e.g., "mywebcam" or "thecam.

adomain.net" or the associated IP number for the server, e.g., 192.168.0.220.

Syntax:

http://<servername>/cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg

Description of returned data is written with "Return:"inboldfacefollowedbythereturneddatainabox.Alldatais

returned in HTTP format, i.e., each line is separated with a Carriage Return and Line Feed (CRLF) printed as \r\n.

Return:

HTTP/1.0<HTTPcode><HTTPtext>\r\n

URLsyntaxexamplesarewrittenwith"Example:"inboldfacefollowedbyashortdescriptionandalightgreybox

withtheexample.

Example: request a single snapshot image

http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg

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