[mapserver-users] Control access to WMS

[Milo van der Linden]

You might consider implementing an specific wms access control proxy.
52North offers this on their open source stack:

http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/security/



Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca schreef:
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> Hi,
> I defined a WMS Raster layer that I use in my OpenLayers/GeoExt apps,
> I would like to control the access to this WMS, so people can use it
> via my application, but can not "call" the WMS to use it in their
> client application. The reason is there is a "context" that comes with
> this WMS. Without it the data can be misinterpreted.
>
> I already posted this thread on OpenLayers list. It seems that the
> solution could be on the server side with Apache. Someone suggested to
> limit the access with a user and password or other functionality with
> Apache.
>
> My application will be public so there is no user and password but I
> still need to control the access to this particular WMS layer.
> Is there something I can control using MapServer?
>
> thanks for your help!
> Steve
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