adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

[Gerry Creager]

Rights management is now well into the investigatory and specification 
stages in OGC.

gerry

Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> John Mitchell wrote:
>> How would I add support for user authentication within Mapserver for 
>> GetCapablities and GetMap?
> 
> Sean's answer is basially right: You don't. Security is the webserver's 
> job, and not Mapserver's. In fact, none of the OGC WxS standards 
> supports security; they assume that the webserver has already done such 
> things before calling the application.
> 
> You would have to password protect the mapserv binary or the cgi-bin 
> directory which houses it, not just the one app nor just those functions 
> or layers.
> 
> I have often wondered why the OGC standards left out such a basic 
> concept as access control. Mysteries of the universe.
> 

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