Cascading external WMS using basic authentication over https

[Rahkonen Jukka]

> Frank Warmerdam wrote
> Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to make MapServer to cascade another WMS 
> service that 
> > must be accessed through https and that wants to get 
> username/password 
> > for authentication? How?
> 
> Jukka,
> 
> I'm not sure what others ways are possible, but I found that 
> to get MapServer able to talk to a password protected WMS (or 
> perhaps WFS?) I had to hack the code to pass some extra 
> options to curl.  Ideally we would provide a mechanism to do 
> this directly from the mapserver if there is no better way.

Direct way from mapserver would be very convenient for us.  Should I
make make a feature request and hope for the best or what?

-Jukka-