[Mapserver-users] WMS and authentication

[Stephen Clark]

just my two cents:

You might try setting up a username and password before Mapserver is iniated
using PHP or something like that which would give the user the access rights
to the specified WMS server.




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Subject: [Mapserver-users] WMS and authentication


> Dear list,
>
> As mentioned in a previous mail, I want to cascade several WMS-Layers from
> different vendors with Mapserver.
> Each layer is secured by basic authentication.
>
> One idea to access the secured layers is to add user and pwd to the
> connection-URL in the mapfile.
> At the moment, libcurl is not able to pass user and password, I have
tested
> it with MS 3.6 and 4.0.
>
> But even if this could be realized, it would be only a workaround to
access
> secured layers.
>
> Is there any experience how to get Mapserver to prompt for user and
> password, if a secured layer is requested ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Daniel
>
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