Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] camsource + auth

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> > Has anyone tried camsource on DL with http auth?
>> > It pops up a login box, but won't accept my login.
>> > (yes, I'm typing it correctly! :)
>>
>> Not me.
>> My Webcam has trouble with Linux so I stopped playing around with that
>> stuff.
>
> The sample config file has this as an example:
>
> <auth>screen:shot</auth>
>
> And that works!  I changed the user/password, and nothing worked.
>
> Then I got to playing around, and I found that I can change the
> user/password as long as I keep them exactly the same length
> (number of characters) as "screen:shot".  Otherwise it fails.
>
> Sounds like a bug in camsource to me...   :-)

Why don't you shoot and email to the author?
He's probably happy to get some feedback.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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