[Geoprisma-users] Any thoughts on a geoprisma lite?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Julien,

Thanks for the quick reply.

On 4/19/2011 3:46 PM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> What we've done in the past is to use only the proxy of geoprisma
> without all the UI component. So we just defined services, datastores
> and resources and we pointed to the proxy instead of pointing to the WMS
> service.

Ok, this is an interesting idea. I might play with this to see how that 
works.

> On 11-04-19 02:20 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>
>> 1. Can this be done with geoprisma? How light-weight is it?
>
> The proxy, if you use the Memcached PHP session is fairly light-weight.
> I think it's a 30% overhead, but I'm not sure.

Hmmm, Memcached PHP session, this is another interesting idea that I 
have not thought about.

>> 2. What are your thoughts on doing this as an apache2 module?
>
> We thought about it and it would be great! However it's not a small task
> and will probably need some funding to develop it.

I don't have a funded project yet for this, but in talking with clients 
the issue of securing access to their tile caches always comes up. 
Mostly I just side-step the issue because I don't have a good solution 
to offer. But if I had a solution, I could probably sell it as an add-on 
or bundled with another solution, which has got me looking into these 
options.

I've done some mod_perl stuff in the past that was not that hard to 
figure out and looking at mod_geocoache the coding seems straight 
forward. I think the challenge is figuring out the security model. I 
think there is a mod_oauth that might be applicable but I need to do 
more reading on it.

Anyway, if I get enough time to figure anything out, I'll give the list 
an update.

>> 3. Are you aware of other tools well suited for this?
>>
>
> There's GeoShield, but it's Java running under Tomcat which cancel the
> fact that you use a Apache module for mod_geocache. Other than that, I
> don't know, I'm sorry.

Yeah, I try to avoid Java stuff mostly because it is not a core expertise.

> Hope this helps,

Yes, it does!

Thanks,
   -Steve

> Julien
>
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