[OpenLayers-Users] Secure WMS with OL

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:51:26PM +0300, Pavel Iacovlev wrote:
> Yes, as a workground you can serve your WMS data through phpmapscript
> (or any other mapscript) and have a authentication page somewhere on
> your website that after successful authentication will create a
> session that will be use to decide to serve data or not. This solution
> works great for us, and if your "paranoid" as my boss you can even
> have your content watermarked with logged username & date.

However, this doesn't prevent the user from opening those images, downloading
them from within the browser, and doing something with them.

-- Chris

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Vidal, Antoni <antoni.vidal at icc.cat> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> >
> >
> > In our organisation, We have interest to add a layer in our OL client with
> > new information. We wolud like not allow WMS public access to this new
> > layer, only for request from our client users. In OL + FF with firebug is
> > possible to see the request to WMS services and then, user can copy the URL
> > and make free use. This is just We would like to avoid. Is this possible?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank’s in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> > Antoni Vidal
> >
> > Unitat d'Aplicacions SIG-WEB
> > Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
> > Parc de Montjuïc, E-08038 Barcelona
> > Tel. (+34) 93 567 15 00 (ext. 3228)
> > www.icc.cat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Christopher Schmidt
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