Automatic Authentication Using Javascript?

Just to give a background, our web application involves connecting to a network camera stream. Now the camera has an option for security, so we set up a password for its 'root' acc

Solution 1:

I solved the problem, but I think this is not it. It is very unsafe. What I did was add the authentication to the URL:

http://user:pass@ipaddress/video.mjpg

On the src parameter of the img tag that I created. If anyone has an alternative solution please do give some. Thank you very much.