[OpenLayers-Users] secure WMS and WFS

[Stephan Holl]

Hello

users-request at openlayers.org, [20070214 - 17:57:16]

> Two things regarding that solution:
> 
> (1) To me if the information isn't public one needs to encrypt that
> information. Authentication isn't sufficient.
> 
> (2) For that solution to work the actual WMS server needs to support
> authentication. From what I've read so far, neither geoserver nor
> mapserver support it.

You could use deegree OWSProxy to secure your WMS/WFS-services. I used
this in some setups successfull. You will have a WAS to distribute
sessionsids which are checked against the OWSProxy.

This was done for sure over HTTPS though.

Check out the website[1]

HTH

	Stephan

[1] http://deegree.org


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