[OpenLayers-Dev] Headers in WMS Layer

[Andreas Hocevar]

This will not work. WMS requests in OpenLayers are pure image
requests, handled by the browser. But it looks like what you want is
plain HTTP Basic authentication, which is supported by all browsers.
So you could just change your layer_url to:

http://user:pass@rest_of_your_url/wms/

I'm sure I do not need to tell you that doing this is equivalent to
sharing credentials with the whole world.

Andreas.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Moises Arcos <marcos at emergya.com> wrote:
> Hi developers,
>
> I am using OpenLayers 2.11 to display WMS Layers, but I need any help,
> because I am trying to pass authorization headers into a WMS request, but I
> don't know if it's possible.
>
> The request that I sent is:
>
> var layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(
> layerData.name,
> layer_url,
> {
> layers: layers
> },
> {
>     headers: {
>                      'Authorization': 'Basic user:pass'
>       }
> }
> );
>
> I know that the better options to do this is throught a proxy, but I need to
> do this temporaly.
>
> Regards!!!
>
> --
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>
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Andreas Hocevar
Geospatial Solutions Engineer | Boundless
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