Thanks for your reply Jared.
I was thinking more like a GET request, e.g. http://restServer:port/okToImage
with a return of either 1 or 0 to indicate that it's safe or unsafe, respectively.
The server side triggers would be coded by the user. For example, in my case, I could have a threshold in my server side code that would trigger an unsafe condition if the sky IR temperature is within some threshold of the ambient temperature, indicating clouds.
Gabe