[Qgis-developer] WCS and Raster improvements for QGIS

[Etienne Tourigny]

Sorry for butting in - but I think it would be much more productive to
fix/enhance the gdal WCS driver than to implement a standalone qgis
provider.

Etienne

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes - Radim already made a first pass implementation using GDAL WCS
>> though he said there were some problems with it - I think the most
>> critical being that it doesn't support proxy access (I am speaking
>> under correction here as I haven't looked into it in that much detail
>> myself).
>
> This should be rather easy to add. It is just a matter of setting the right
> option to CPLHTTPFetch() (and thus the curl library), namely :
>
> <li>PROXY=val, to make requests go through a proxy server, where val is of the
>     form proxy.server.com:port_number
> <li>PROXYUSERPWD=val, where val is of the form username:password
>
> Note: They can also already be used by setting the GDAL_HTTP_PROXY and
> GDAL_HTTP_PROXYUSERPWD configuration options/environmenet variable, which will
> act on all GDAL/OGR drivers that go through the CPLHTTPFetch() function.
>
> I see Radim is already a GDAL committer, so there shouldn't be too much overhead
> if he wants to hack in the WCS driver.
>
>> I will let Radim comment on any other issues. I think from
>> the project perspective we don't mind too much which approach is used
>> if the result is efficient and integrates nicely into QGIS.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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