How can I make Chrome allow access to a webcam over http (not https)?

Question

I am building a kiosk application using webrtc video. It is only served on the internal network and I would like to be able to always allow the webcam for my site over http. Using ssl isn't that important and is just an extra expense for a cert.

Is there any way to do this or am I stuck?

Answer 1

Yes, an admin can override the prompts with a policy.

VideoCaptureAllowedUrls

Patterns in this list will be matched against the security origin of the requesting URL. If a match is found, access to audio capture devices will be granted without prompt. NOTE: This policy is currently only supported when running in Kiosk mode.

On Windows, you create registry entries using regedit.

Software\Policies\Chromium\VideoCaptureAllowedUrls\1 = "http://www.example.com/" Software\Policies\Chromium\VideoCaptureAllowedUrls\2 = "http://[*.]example.edu/" 

On Linux you write the policies in a file:

mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed touch /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/test_policy.json 

In test_policy.json:

{   "VideoCaptureAllowedUrls": ["http://www.example.com/", "http://[*.]example.edu/"] } 

Answer 2

Use command-line flag

use --use-fake-ui-for-media-stream command-line flag

example (OS X) : /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/getusermedia/record-user-webm.html --use-fake-ui-for-media-stream

More info here http://creativcoders.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/chrome-always-allow-access-to-webcam-and-microphone-over-http-webrtc/