[Qgis-developer] WMS layers and plugin interface

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

One thing I dont like is specifying the proxy host on a per connection
basis. I makes more sense to me to specify proxy server on a
application global basis given the following:

- in most cases I have ever encountered if you are using a proxy, you
will use the same connection for all internet facing connections
- most proxies can differentiate between lan and wan connections and
behave appropriately
- if you are using e.g. a laptop in a proxy enabled network, and then
take your laptop home, you need to reconfigure your proxy setting for
every layer in every project

As such I would suggest we rather move setting proxy as a qgsoptions
item, and then when loading a layer from wfs/wms rather check if the
proxy is enabled in that session and use the qgsoptions defined
settings.

Regards

Tim

2008/6/3 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Hugentobler  Marco
> <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> Hi QGIS devs,

>> Am I right that it is not possible to add WMS layers from plugins with the current plugin interface? There seems to be only
>>
>> virtual QgsRasterLayer* addRasterLayer(QString rasterLayerPath, QString baseName = QString())=0;
>>
>> for file-based raster layers. Would it be ok to add a similar function for WMS layers, e.g.
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> yes, it's not possible :-)
> feel free to add such function, it won't break anything.
>
> Martin
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