Authentication (Re: Feature polls...)

[Mark MacLennan]

At 10:39 PM 1/15/2006 -0500, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
>Has anyone checked out DACS (http://dacs.sourceforge.net/)?  They have a
C/C++ toolkit/API in which one can build modules to stuff like do per layer
authorization, etc.
>I've seen this successfully integrated with CubeWerx WMS/WFS.  Would be
neat to see as a pluggable Apache module for use w/ MapServer.
 
Very interesting! I had not come across DACS and it is exactly the
functionality I had in mind :-)

A related project I was aware of, although I am not sure how it might apply
to MapServer per se, is GeoXACML (http://www.geoxacml.org/). A demonstraton
has been implemented for a OGC Web Map Service. An OGC discussion paper for
GeoXACML also exists
(https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/index.php?artifact_id=10471)
related to the topic of authorization for digital rights management in the
geospatial domain.

thanks!
Mark