[Tagging] preproposal : internet webcam

Egil Hjelmeland privat at egil-hjelmeland.no
Sun Dec 1 13:25:30 UTC 2013


On 01. des. 2013 00:44, Martin Koppenhöfer wrote:
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> Am 30.11.2013 um 18:40 schrieb Egil Hjelmeland <privat at egil-hjelmeland.no>:
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>> contact:webcam=<url> is fine, that tell we have a webcam. Do we really need anything more to tell its a webcam?
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> I think contact:webcam is nonsense, you can't contact someone via his webcam.
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> Cheers,
> Martin
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Having background from Session Initiation Protocol it made sense to me. 
The Contact SIP header is like

Contact:<http://example.com/webcam>;video

video is a Contact header parameter indicating video streaming capability.


OK, that was slightly OT.

The important thing is to settle for a key to tag the URL for webcams 
and get it documented.

--Egil



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