[Mapserver-users] WMS Client Problem

[Ed McNierney]

Daniel -

I am just about to look into some WMS access control issues and I was
planning to try the http://user:password@host.domain.com/... route.  My
concern, however, is that the online resource URI has to be described in
the MAP file as well, which would mean that each user would need to have
a unique MAP file with their own username and password embedded in it.
Does this make sense to you?  Am I confused?

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Morissette [mailto:dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:21 PM
To: bartvde at xs4all.nl
Cc: Stefan Schneberger; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] WMS Client Problem

bartvde at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I had the exact same problem (and still have, because we have changed 
> things in the firewall/proxy to solve this).
> 
> I think you need to recompile Mapserver and libcurl to have it going 
> through the proxy. Not a totally trivial task.
> 
> I think it would be a nice enhancement to Mapserver if we could 
> specify in the MAP file whether or not the WMS client needs to go 
> through a proxy and then the address/URL of the proxy.

If I remember correctly it's just a few extra parameters to pass to
libcurl, so I don't think it would be too hard to support a proxy. 
However I am wondering if the proxy settings should be global to the
mapfile (i.e. in the WEB object), or local to the WMS layer (i.e. 
wms_proxy_* metadata).  It seems to me that it would make sense to have
a single set of parameters in the web object, but I don't know if there
are cases where someone needs different proxies to get to different
hosts.

I have created a bug to discuss this, please add your comments there:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571


> Also some kind of authentication
> support for the WMS client would be nice.
> 

Does it work if you use http://user:password@host.domain.com/... in the
online resource?  If not then please create a enhancement bug for this
and I'll see what can be done.

Daniel
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