[Qgis-developer] WMS layers and plugin interface

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Tim,

"Tim Sutton" <tim at linfiniti.com>, [20080603 - 12:01:45]

> 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.

While following this thread closely I like to bring another option of
proxy-usage in play.
What about the 'normal' proxy-env-vars http_proxy/https_proxy? It would
be really cool, if they would be picked up from the settings when the
checkbox 'use_proxy' is checked (like Tim suggested above).

This would simplify the use of systemwide-proxy-usage on a
multiuser-system dramaticaly, because QGIS simply picks up the correct
proxy. Though I am not sure it this works also on other OS than
GNU/Linux.

Currently we are dealing with such a scenario for securing several
OGC-services(WMS/WFS) through proxy-usage. 

Best regards

	Stephan

-- 
Stephan Holl <stephan.holl at intevation.de>, http://intevation.de/~stephan
Tel: +49 (0)541-33 50 8 32 | Intevation GmbH | AG Osnabrück - HR B 18998
Geschäftsführer:  Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner