Raspberry pi not allowing download of image with wget

Question

I have an IP camera which requires a login, and so far, I have found no way around it. So I decided to use this:

http://192.168.1.110:8080/snapshot.cgi?user=[Usernamehere]&pwd=[PasswdHere]&count=3

When I insert the correct username and password, It works in my browser, It shows me the picture of the webcam stream. I want to make a time-lapse so I have this script:

wget -O [filenamepath] http://192.168.1.110:8080/snapshot.cgi?user=user&pwd=1234&count=3

And I get a 401 Unauthorized error in the console. I have no idea what could be going wrong and any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

What you are trying will only work if the receiving program (in this case, the snapshot.cgi program) is capable of recognizing parameters name user and pwd, but it's absolutely not a standard.

Probably it will have worked from your browser because were already logged in. The normal way to add username and password to an url is:

http://username:password@192.168.1.110:8080/snapshot.cgi?count=3

If that doesn't work, try adding them to the wget command line as explained in the manual:

wget -O [filenamepath] --user=user --password=1234 http://192.168.1.110:8080/snapshot.cgi?count=3

ps: you cannot test the url with embedded username and password with IE because some time ago Microsoft decided to stop supporting that feature.