[Featureserver] user authentication

[Brent Pedersen]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> 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,
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> Christopher Schmidt
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that's a lot simpler than i thought. wish i'd known about LimitExcept sooner...
so many apache directives, so few brain cells.