Authentication

[Gregor Mosheh]

Ruben Pardo wrote:
> We want to protect a number of layers to non-authenticate users.
> I want to ask how people use to protect layers served by mapserver? is 
> there any mechanism inside mapserver for this?

There sure isn't. Authentication has to be done at some other layer, 
typically the webserver layer. If Tomcat is generating the requests, 
then that'd be the best place to do the authentication.

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