[mapguide-users] MapAgent parameters

[Andy Morsell]

Nice sleuthing, Jason.  That works on my end as well. 


Andy 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:17 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] MapAgent parameters

Hey,  what do you know...  

I tried adding USERNAME=Anonymous to the request and it worked (because the
password is blank).  I then tried adding USERNAME=Administrator and it
prompted for authentication.  I then tried adding
PASSWORD=mysupersecretpassword to the request and this bypassed
authentication.

I had tried this earlier, but guessed USER instead of USERNAME...

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:06
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] MapAgent parameters

Thanks James,

I had thought about that, but passing authentication info in the link is so
broken (especially in Internet Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489) that it's not really useful.
This is just a "nice-to-have" until I get to the point of redeveloping my
reports in asp.net or php.  I could see it being useful for providing access
to map images on sites that do not have one of the supported languages
installed though.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: James Card [mailto:james.card at calcad.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 09:06
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] MapAgent parameters

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:44:05 -0800, Jason Birch <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca>
wrote:

> It's cool to be able to just call something like this: <URL:  
> http://localhost/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi?OPERATION=GETMAPIMAGE
> &VERSION=1.0.0&MAPNAME=Sheboygan&LOCALE=en&MAPDEFINITION=Library%3A%2F
> %2FSamples%2FSheboygan%2FMaps%2FSheboygan.MapDefinition&FORMAT=PNG&SET
> VIEWCENTERX=-87.73&SETVIEWCENTERY=43.74&SETVIEWSCALE=5000&SETDISPLAYDP
> I=300&SETDISPLAYWIDTH=3000&SETDISPLAYHEIGHT=2100
> >
>
> It would be nice if I could specify a userid on that line and have the

> agent authenticate using that user with a blank password.  I would be 
> lazy enough to use this to enhance some existing cold fusion reports.

You can do this by embedding the user credentials in the URL, like this:

<URL:
http://UserID:Password@localhost/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi?...  
>. However, some browsers block this or prompt the user with a
confirmation dialog before submitting the request to the server, so it may
still not do exactly what you'd hoped for.

--
James Card
California CAD Solutions, Inc.
209 578-5580 Voice
209 521-6493 FAX

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