[Featureserver] user authentication

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:32:25AM +0200, G. Allegri wrote:
> > <LimitExcept GET>
> >  Require valid-user
> >  etc.
> > </LimitExcept>
> 
> That's ok to make a global control on the REST services access, but it
> doesn't apply to a specific datasource.

Sure; you can just apply it to <LocationMatch> blocks, no?

 <LocationMatch /featureserver/datasource>
   <LimitExcept>
   ...

> I need to allow certain users to see or write certain layers, based on
> grant rules.

Right, I'd do that with LocationMatch and LImitExcept.  

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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