[Geoprisma-users] Does Geoprisma proxy works with generic WMS client/server ?

[Alexandre Dube]

Hello,

This feature is currently not supported, but it would be a nice addition 
(patch welcomed).

GeoPrisma was intended to stand in front of multiple services of 
multiple kinds. A WMS GetCapabilites targets only one service of WMS 
type. So, in a way, if we want to have all the resources capabilities 
from all services, all 'capabilities' requests should be supported. I 
think all this could be managed in a single call to the proxy itself, 
like a 'GeoPrisma GetCapabilities' that would on back end trigger the 
capabilities itself or simply get its informations from the config.

There is already a way to call config methods using the 'ConfigProxy' :
http://www.geoprisma.org/dist/build/html/proxy/index.html#proxy-configproxy-label

For example, the PGSQLMapContextConfig has a 'getAuthorizedResources' 
method that can be used by a config proxy call. What it does is pretty 
basic, but you get the idea. There could be a new 'getCapabilities' 
method there.

What do you think ?

Alexandre


On 11-06-23 05:39 AM, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:17:39PM -0400, Alexandre Dube wrote:
>>    You could also change the onlineresource of your layer in order to
>> point to your proxy url (with the osmresource and osmservice
>> parameters set).
> First of all: thank you for getting the time to answer.
>
> Unfortunately now I'm confused.
>
> It seems that the Geoprisma WMS proxy does not alter the
> GetCapabilities returned by the WMS service in any way.
>
> The GetCapabilities returned by the proxy contains all the
> layers, regardless the user having rights on them.
>
> Also the OnlineResource xlink:href in the GetCapabilities (this
> is from the on-line samples/borealisacl/) is:
>
>    <OnlineResource xlink:href="http://dev4g.mapgears.com?"/>
>
> whereas I expect to see the proxy href:
> http://geoprisma.org/samples/borealisacl/xml/proxy.php?....
>
> This will breaks some WMS clients (e.g. QGIS), which will asks
> the GetMap directly to the WMS service instead to the proxy.
>
> I was not able to fix it fiddling with the config or with the
> query parameters. I searched also the Geoprisma code, but it
> seems to me that that functionalities are not implemented.
>
> If I am right with this insight, is Geoprisma proxy intended to
> support this features? Is there some code stub where I can to
> start looking at?
>
> Thank you again.
>


-- 
Alexandre Dubé
Mapgears
www.mapgears.com