Axis IP cameras support FTP , they are expensive though As for hikvision you should be able to grab an image via http They have an SDK available If you can't find it let me know and I will check , I also thought they supported FTP But that may only be on alarm

I think everyone should be taught imperial measures as well , specifically miles,yards.feet and inches All these measurements are still in daily use , try and work will millimeters in engineering and you soon find out that thousands of an inch are the only way to measure small tolerances.

I have a friend who has just moved to Sweden I am trying to convince him to let me route all my traffic through his home broadband connection via VPN Would be interesting if this idea became widespread In return he can route all his traffic through my home broadband connection

Its about time the EU looked into Phorm/BT This needs to be stopped sooner rather than later !