WMS/WFS Authentication

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

I've used simple http authentication and x509 certificates in the past, although I'm sure there are other approaches.
 
I guess an initial question would be what/how do you want secure your WMS/WFS w.r.t. granularity?  Do you want to protect the entire WMS/WFS?  Or specific layers/feature types?
 
If the latter:
 
- do you want want to assign roles / groups to specific layers/feature types?  Do you want to further constrain by spatial predicates?
- this gets way more complicated.
 
..Tom
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Stephen Woodbridge 
	Sent: Sat 26-May-07 11:00 
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	Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WMS/WFS Authentication
	
	

	Hi all,
	
	What are people doing for WMS/WFS authentication when they set up a for
	fee service? Since this is not part of the protocol, I'm wondering how
	you might be doing this or if anyone is doing this.
	
	Thanks,
	   -Steve