[Xitami] webcam

[SandMan]

Depending on your DNS provider, you may be able todo a Web Forward, like:
http://webcam.ackerman-family.com would actually just forward you to
http://www.ackerman-family.com:8080  I use http://www.zonedit.com for my
DNS..free service..works well..

~SandMan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Reid" <preid@rci.rutgers.edu>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] webcam


> > I think we are a little off track here.
>
> Way off track.
>
> > The problem is that webcam.ackerman-family.com points to port 80 via the
DNS.
>
> Well, no, it doesn't point to port 80; DNS isn't about ports.
> Port 80 is assumed by every web browser ever made; but they can
> be told to use another port with a URL like domain.com:8080
>
> Therefore your webcam "should" now be working at
> http://www.ackerman-family.com:8080
>
> However I get no response. You may have the webcam turned-off at
> the moment I tried, or you may be mucking around with overly
> complex redirections. And you MUST open port 8080 in your router
> or this is never going to work.
>
> Granted, telling your kin to use :port notation is going to
> baffle everybody over age 16. You need a plain URL.
>
> Is there a reason you want a unique machine name for your webcam?
> Or would it be good enough to have a URL like
> http://www.ackerman-family.com/webcam ? Webcams are often
> embedded in static pages where you can show static info related
> to the webcam.
>
> On that page, have an "image" link like IMG
> SRC="http://www.ackerman-family.com:8080" -- however, I'm not
> sure that format will work, and can't test it since I can't get
> any response from port 8080 at your URL.
>
>  -PRR
>
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