# IP Camera Viewer - IOException: Premature EOF **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [February 24, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer-ioexception-premature-eof/8055 "2014-02-24T21:38:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cacordova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@cacordova](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cacordova)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer-ioexception-premature-eof/8055/1 "2014-02-24T21:38:52Z")
We’re trying to view our ycam cameras using the ip camera viewer but after we set the url the camera connects, we can see the video, but after a few minutes it goes black and shows the error “IOException: Premature EOF” Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer-ioexception-premature-eof/8055/2 "2015-03-10T23:24:22Z")
The premature EOF exception generally occurs in situations where a connection to a particular application server connection was lost. This could have been caused by the camera becoming unavailable or a network reliability issue. Are you still experiencing this issue? ---
**Author:** ![jsorlie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jsorlie/32/3645_2.png) [@jsorlie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jsorlie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer-ioexception-premature-eof/8055/3 "2018-05-16T21:16:30Z")
see here: [IP camera status - how to catch "Stream ended." status](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-status-how-to-catch-stream-ended-status/18030)