[Qgis-user] WFS/WMS layers behind HTTP/HTTPS basic auth

[Gary Sherman]

On Apr 17, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Peter Willis wrote:

>
>>>
>>> Is there any way to use HTTP basic auth with QGIS WMS?
>> Currently there is no support for this but its something a few people
>> have requested now. I recommend adding an enhancement ticket to  
>> trac and
>> we will hopefully add support for this in the near future.
>> Thanks
>> Tim
>
> Is there already a ticket for this in track?
> Does the priority increase as more people ask
> for a specific feature?
>
This is already being worked on -- https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1603

-gary
> As a note; uDig handles WMS behind basic auth.
> You may want to peruse their source code before
> reinventing. Of course, they are programming in java
> so it's difficult to tell how much of the basic auth
> is being handled directly by java as opposed to
> the actual program handling it directly.
>
> Peter
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