camera management via TLS

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Permanently deleted user

July 29, 2020 02:39

When adding a camera via the interface manually, you can specify an https connection in the URL, but it will not support discovery and/or management via the built-in browser, regardless of specifying the correct port (because it's expecting http vs https).

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  Sergey Yuldashev

  • Network Optix team

  August 06, 2020 09:07 Edited

  Hello Jake,

  According to current implementation, the "Add camera" dialog expects the following as input:

  • Camera IP address - in this case it will be added with one of the supported camera proprietary drivers if possible
  • HTTP(S)/RTSP/UDP generic stream url - in this case stream will be added directly. Server will show the feed only if it exists in the endpoint.

  So server just can't properly process the string when you try to add something like:

  https://<camera_ip>​

  Server tries to find specifically mjpeg stream there and never gets the response.

   

  On the other hand, for some cameras which support that, https data exchange will work even if you specify only ip address in the search bar. So far as to my knowledge, only few vendors were able to maintain data exchange properly.

  But if there's gonna be more, we'll of course add https support for them as well and it will be pretty smoothly and transparent for the end user.

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