There is something weird happening when I try and proxy through Apache to the cameras (or remote (*) access  I get:

Header fields are too long for server to interpret

 This is coming from the ESP itself; needs more debug.

 https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/2983

(*) A simple http proxy with basic authentication enabled, it works for some other tools including a ESP32 based CNC controller, but not for this. Strange.