User Authentication via WMS/WFS?

[Ed McNierney]

Curtis & Paul -
 
In practice, authentication is more of a user interface concern.  You
can't force an application (ESRI's ArcMap, for example) to provide UI to
enter a username and password if that application doesn't provide that
UI (and it doesn't).  This limits the HTTP authentication options
available to WMS providers, and it requires a relatively unpalatable URL
(with username and password embedded in it) to support even Basic
authentication.
 
But Curtis, it's hard to tell what your question is when it's only one
sentence.  If you can be more specific about what you're trying to do
you'll get more specific help and fewer random observations tangentially
related to your topic <g>.
 
    - Ed
Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242 


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Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] User Authentication via WMS/WFS?


Curtis, 

Authentication is more of an HTTP concern, not a WMS concern. Do this at
the web server level via Apache or IIS configuration. 

P 

On 15-Jul-06, at 11:11 PM, Curtis W. Ruck wrote:


	
	Is there a way to force user authentication through WMS/WFS in
mapserver?
	



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