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color=#0000ff size=2>Curtis & Paul -</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>In practice, authentication is more of a user interface
concern. You can't force an application (ESRI's ArcMap, for example) to
provide UI to enter a username and password if that application doesn't provide
that UI (and it doesn't). This limits the HTTP authentication options
available to WMS providers, and it requires a relatively unpalatable URL (with
username and password embedded in it) to support even Basic
authentication.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=633452621-17072006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>But Curtis, it's hard to tell what your question is when
it's only one sentence. If you can be more specific about what you're
trying to do you'll get more specific help and fewer random observations
tangentially related to your topic <g>.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=633452621-17072006> <FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>- Ed</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Ed McNierney<BR>President and Chief Mapmaker<BR>TopoZone.com /
Maps a la carte, Inc.<BR>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305<BR>North Chelmsford,
MA 01863<BR>ed@topozone.com<BR>(978) 251-4242 </FONT></P></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul
Ramsey<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:28 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] User
Authentication via WMS/WFS?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Curtis,
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<DIV>Authentication is more of an HTTP concern, not a WMS concern. Do this at
the web server level via Apache or IIS configuration.
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<DIV>On 15-Jul-06, at 11:11 PM, Curtis W. Ruck wrote:</DIV><BR
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