adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

[Gregor Mosheh]

Sean Gillies wrote:
>> Gerry Creager wrote:
>>> Rights management is now well into the investigatory and 
>>> specification stages in OGC.

>> He, that's excellent to hear. Thanks for the tip.

> No, it's not excellent. DRM is defective by design.

Hrm, perhaps I misunderstood. I read "access control" as in password 
protection to get into my WMS/WFS server.

Gerry, did you mean access control at the application layer, so I can 
have Mapserver manage user accounts and access to my WMS layers, or 
something deeper such as DRM on the imagery, copy-protection on 
GeoTIFFs, and the like?

(yeah, it's off the topic of Mapserver; so's a lot of educational and 
interesting stuff we talk about :)

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