[PLUG] Webcam viewer

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Wed Dec 10 19:13:01 UTC 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Richard Lidzbarski wrote:
> I should have specified that I wish to view a webcam that is on Yahoo,
> not on a webpage.

Near as I can tell, Yahoo is a web page... at least that operated at
<URL: http://www.yahoo.com/ > certainly is.

What on Earth do you mean?

> Neither Gaim nor Yahoo Messenger for LInux seems to support webcams, is
> there a way around this?

What protocol is used for transmitting the images?  If it ain't HTTP, it
ain't a webcam.  If it is HTTP, use a web browser.

J.
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