<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Curtis,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Authentication is more of an HTTP concern, not a WMS concern. Do this at the web server level via Apache or IIS configuration.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>P<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 15-Jul-06, at 11:11 PM, Curtis W. Ruck wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><DIV style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Is there a way to force user authentication through WMS/WFS in mapserver?</SPAN><BR style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></DIV></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>