ros-drivers / pointgrey_camera_driver

ROS driver for Pt. Grey cameras, based on the official FlyCapture2 SDK.
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DownloadFlyCap.cmake is broken #25

Closed mikepurvis closed 9 years ago

mikepurvis commented 9 years ago

Point Grey have changed how their download centre works; the archive links now need to be authenticated. This makes the process of downloading at configure time more complicated. :(

Will need to switch away from CMake's file(DOWNLOAD) and probably use a curl invocation instead, in order to supply credentials to the login form.


A better approach is probably to manage a bunch of this in a single Python script. eg,

Login and get cookies: http://stackoverflow.com/a/189580/109517

Download file: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22682/109517