Topic: webcam widget using https

Hi,

I try to make a webcam widget which fetches the images from a https website.
The widget runs on my computer very well, but on the chumby classic the widget didn't show any image.
Is it impossible to load images from a https website?

Any ideas?

Regards
Thorsten

Re: webcam widget using https

This might be a certificate issue - try updating your device's firmware:

http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=46109#p46109

Re: webcam widget using https

Hi Duane,

thanks for the hint.
I'm on 1.7.2 and will try the update tomorrow.

Regards
Thorsten

Re: webcam widget using https

I updated to 1.7.3 but the widget on the chumby won't load the images.

Is there anything I can do?

Thorsten

Re: webcam widget using https

Well, it was worth a try.

I ran into this myself a few weeks back - Cute Overload has moved to https for all of their images. To get around it, I set up a proxy server that would do the https request on my behalf, cache the response, and give me the images over http.  It's fine for these types of photo-slidehow-type apps, but not designed for a webcam.

Re: webcam widget using https

I followed your hint with the proxy server.
The images are downloaded to my private web server using a script every 15 minutes.
The widget uses these copies of the webcam images.

Now the widget runs again, so I've updated it on chumby.com.

Re: webcam widget using https

The "de Piraat" webcam widget has been made public per your request.