[Geomoose-users] URL parameters

Dan Little danlittle at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 8 11:08:24 EST 2011


You are correct, check out my previous post.

>
>From: Carl Burn <burnsy at northcountrywoods.co.uk>
>To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 10:05:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] URL parameters
>
>Hello again,
>
>
>I took a look at this and the code I think I need to alter is pretty much this 
>section of the config.php file:
>
>
># Load the configration file
>$CONFIGURATION = parse_ini_file('../../conf/settings.ini');
>
>
>function getMapbook() {
>global $CONFIGURATION;
>$mapbook = new DOMDocument();
>$mapbook->load('../../conf/'.$CONFIGURATION['mapbook']);
>return $mapbook;
>}
>
>
>I am a CF person not a php person (so bear with me) but this looks like it gets 
>the mapbook from the settings.ini, reads it and then puts the content into a 
>variable called mapbook. So if I can modify this functionality to take the 
>details from the url parameter I am passing in then that should be it, the 
>security I can handle in other ways.
>
>
>Is this making sense?
>
>
>Carl
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>On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Carl Burn <burnsy at northcountrywoods.co.uk> 
>wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>>
>>
>>one thought occurs, how do I go about changing the name of the index file that 
>>is called when geomoose starts up, at the moment this is geomoose.html.
>>Is this simply a case of changing the file name or is it wired into the setup of 
>>geomoose, if I can alter the file extension then I can see a way to solve this 
>>easily.
>>
>>
>>Carl
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Carl Burn <burnsy at northcountrywoods.co.uk> 
>>wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>mid afternoon here, still a while to go before I head off...and I think that may 
>>>be extended so I can resolve this one. 
>>>
>>>
>>>I am passing in the parameter for map book every time a user accesses geomoose 
>>>as they all have unique files...and just to be really fun they are likely to be 
>>>unique on every visit, so I am generating a mapbook on the fly as the user 
>>>attempts to access geomoose.
>>>
>>>
>>>Not to sure I understand what you mean by 1 or 2 but I think I may head over and 
>>>get a copy of 1.x
>>>
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>Carl
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Good morning (at least for me, you're probably trying to leave the office about 
>>>now)!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>GM2.2 doesn't directly support passing in a mapbook parameter as did the 1.X 
>>>>series.  The reason for this is three-fold:
>>>>1) It wasn't a terribly popular functionality.
>>>>2) It was a gaping security hole.
>>>>3) It requires all of the subsequent services to know they need to switch 
>>>>mapbooks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>There are some options, and they all center around modifying the getMapbook 
>>>>function of config.php.  Two popular solutions:
>>>>1) Parser the "referrer url" from the HTTP header and get the mapbook parameter 
>>>>from that.
>>>>2) Read a cookie for a login/authorization schema and select the appropriate  
>>>>mapbook.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>From: Carl Burn <burnsy at northcountrywoods.co.uk>
>>>>>To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>>Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 9:18:01 AM
>>>>>Subject: [Geomoose-users] URL parameters
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I am passing across a url parameter of mapbook to geomoose and it looks like it 
>>>>>is simply being ignored, for example:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.aqua3.com:2112/geomoose2/geomoose.html?mapbook=62_1364345175.xml
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The system simply uses the default mapbook as defined in the config.ini file and 
>>>>>ignores the url parameter totally, I checked the documentation link for this and 
>>>>>my call looks correct. The mapbook file is valid and works if I put it into the 
>>>>>config.ini. I also tried not setting a mapbook in the config.ini..this results 
>>>>>in no map even when the mapbook is specified on the url as a  parameter. 
>>>>>I know its going to be an obvious one but can someone point out what I have 
>>>>>missed please.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Best
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Carl
>>>>
>>>
>>
>


      
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