Web Cam: About the plug-in

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This plug-in is for web camera owners who wish to display web camera images on their web site. Almost every web camera application knows how to upload an image file to FTP server but most of them cannot submit images to web servers directly bypassing the FTP server. When using FTP server the image is saved onto your drive first and then picked up by the web site, this step is unnecessary and does absolutely no good to your hard drive. If you need to stream your web camera to Servlet/JSP/PHP this plug-in is just for that.


Web Cam plug-in wraps existing ColoradoFTP file system and intercepts uploads made by selected users. Plug-in then reads uploaded files into memory and feeds them to your web server without writing the files to your hard drive. You can upload any files (not necessarily pictures) provided your web server knows how to handle those files.


Currently it is possible to stream files only to a web server via POST, but with a little bit of work this plug-in may be extended (with more TASK implementations) to utilize other delivery mechanisms.


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