adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

[Sean Gillies]

John Mitchell wrote:
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> Hi,
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> How would I add support for user authentication within Mapserver for
> GetCapablities and GetMap?
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> As an example:
> &request=GetCapabilities&userid=user&passwd=password
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> Thanks,
> 

Use your web server's security framework

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html

(or whatever if you're on IIS). Don't do security in your CGI program 
unless there's absolutely no other way.

Cheers,
Sean