[QGIS Commit] r10669 - docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide

[svn_qgis at osgeo.org]

Author: sholl
Date: 2009-04-28 03:42:51 -0400 (Tue, 28 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 10669

Modified:
   docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex
Log:
* Added parts for accessing basic_authenticated WMS-servers
* TODO: describe for WFS if also functional.



Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex	2009-04-27 23:42:46 UTC (rev 10668)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_ogc.tex	2009-04-28 07:42:51 UTC (rev 10669)
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@
 \hline URL \index{WMS!URL} & URL of the server providing the data.
  This must be a resolvable host name; the same format as you would use 
  to open a telnet connection or ping a host. \\
+\hline Username \index{WMS!authentification} & Username to access a
+secured WMS-server. This parameter is optional \\
+\hline Password & Password for a basic authentificated WMS-server. This
+parameter is optional.\\
 \hline
 \end{tabular}
 \end{table}
@@ -410,13 +414,16 @@
 
 \minisec{WMS Servers Requiring Authentication}
 \index{WMS!remote server!authentication}
+\index{WMS!remote server!basic authentification}
 
-Only public WMS servers are accessible.
-There is no ability to apply a user name and password combination
-as an authentication to the WMS server.
+Currently public accessible and secured WMS-services are supported.
+The secured WMS-servers can be accessed by public authentification. You
+can add the (optional) credentials when you add a WMS-server. See section
+\ref{sec:ogc-wms-servers} for details.
 
 \begin{Tip}[ht]\caption{\textsc{Accessing secured OGC-layers}}
-\qgistip{If you need to access secured layers, you could use InteProxy as
+\qgistip{If you need to access secured layers with other secured methods
+than basic authentification, you could use InteProxy as
 a transparent proxy, which does supports several authentification methods.
 More information can be found at the InteProxy-manual found on the website
 \url{http://inteproxy.wald.intevation.org}.