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82 - User's Manual
Overview
For some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, Network Camera/Video
server can be easily integrated through convenient URLs. This document provides the supersets of URL
commands V2 for 7000 series products.
This section specifies the external HTTP based application programming interface. The HTTP based camera
interface provides the functionality to request a single image, to control camera functions (PTZ, output relay
etc.) and to 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, a text within angle brackets denotes a content that is
to be replaced with either a value or a string. When replacing the text string also the angle brackets shall 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, also
below.
URL syntax’ are written with the “Syntax:” word written in bold face followed by a box with the referred
syntax as seen below. The name of the server is written as <servername>. This 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.
Special note will be marked as RED words to take care.
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 returned as HTTP formatted, i.e., starting with the string HTTP is line 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