[Qgis-developer] WCS

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Marco Hugentobler
> <marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>> Hi Radim
>>
>> Nice to have a WCS client in QGIS!
>>
>> If it goes via GDAL WCS driver, how does it work with Proxies (via libcurl?)
>> Some poor users are sitting behind proxies, so it would be nice if the proxy
>> settings from the options are applied to WCS client as well.
>
> I forgot completely about proxies (apart getting capabilities). GDAL
> WCS is using CPLHTTPFetch which should take PROXY and PROXYUSERPWD
> options (>=GDAL 1.8.0) and set CURLOPT_PROXY and
> CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD but other curl options like CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME
> do not seem to be supported.

Folks,

I'd be pleased to have the CPLHTTPFetch extended to better
support proxies though it is often a hassle to surface these things
smoothly.

Best regards,
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