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<p>Hi Christoph,<br>
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<p>Interesting info. Although HTTP Referer isn't a GI thing, it's a
HTTP thing; far pre-dating WMS. ESRI do similar non-standard
things with the standard HTTP headers.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Jonathan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/02/2020 19:23, Christoph Jung
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Jonathan,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I just misinterpreted the word “referer”. The
reason for it in a nutshell:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">My company uses Smallworld as the main gis and we
have an extension to display WMS layers in a more user friendly
way (it is easier then the standard WMS function, but very
“Smallworld-like” anyway ^^). There is a config file with the
URLs of the services and also a ”referer” for each of them: the
copyright respectively the owner of the WMS. This information
will be displayed in the map view after making a WMS Layer
visible. I just saw an input field in QGIS named referer and
thought, it would be the same like in Smallworld. But one more
thing Smallworld is very different to other GI systems :D</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Sincerely,</div>
<div dir="ltr">Christoph </div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 21.02.2020 um 22:49 schrieb Jonathan
Moules <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jonathan-lists@lightpear.com"><jonathan-lists@lightpear.com></a>:<br>
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<p>Hi Christoph,</p>
<p>What do you mean by "where will this referer be displayed"?
I'm guessing this is the HTTP referer in which case it's
probably going to be sent as a HTTP Header with every
request WMS/XYZ request that QGIS is making to the server
(what I'd expect anyway). I guess this is useful because for
"security" reasons some servers only respond to specific
referers. The server operator will see it in their logs but
otherwise it's going to be invisible.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Jonathan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/02/2020 14:04, Christoph
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hello everybody,
When configuring a new WMS or XYZ connection, I can insert a referer. Where will this referer be displayed?
Sincerely,
Christoph
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