[Featureserver] user authentication

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri Sep 5 16:23:53 EDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:11:28PM +0200, G. Allegri wrote:
> Hi list.
> Sometime ago I've read various post about user authentication and
> access restrictions on featureserver.
> Has anyone implemented a solution to manage it?
> 
> I need to restrict editing access of a certain layer to specific
> users, while allowing others (all or not) to read.
> 
> Basic authentication is not a good solution. 

Why not?

<LimitExcept GET>
  Require valid-user
  etc.
</LimitExcept>  

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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