[Qgis-user] WMS through https and basic auth for QGIS

[Vincent Hussey]

Hi,

I am trying to connect to a remote wms server from QGIS using https with
basic authentication.  QGIS version is 1.5.0-4.3 for x86_64 on opensuse 11.3
(rpm from Application:Geo repo).

I have not been successful using the Layer > Add WMS Layer tool in QGIS.
Ticket #2892 appears to refer to this issue. It looks like this will be
fixed in QGIS 1.6.0.  This is a show-stopper for me, in encouraging
colleagues to use this software.

I have come up with a workaround for a **secure** internal network, using
mapserver wms client.  It might be useful to others.

URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=myproxy.map

Mapfile: /srv/www/cgi-bin/myproxy.map

MAP
NAME "MyProxy"

PROJECTION
  "init=epsg:1234"
END

WEB
  METADATA
    "wms_title" "Proxy for external https server"
  END
  IMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/" # check that this is writeable by mapserver
  IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp"
END

LAYER
  NAME "MyRemoteLayer"
  TYPE RASTER
  STATUS ON
  CONNECTION "https://path/to/server?"
  CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
  METADATA
    "wms_title"         "MyRemoteLayer"
    "wms_extent"  "418829.9650 511786.6808 786046.9273 964701.5937" #
extents from http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/1234/
    "wms_auth_type"     "basic"
    "wms_auth_username" "XXXXXX" # username here
    "wms_auth_password" "YYYYYY" # password here
    "wms_srs"             "EPSG:1234"
    "wms_name"            "Remote LayerNameFromCapabilities"
    "wms_server_version"  "1.1.1"
    "wms_format"          "image/jpeg"
  END
END
END

Vincent Hussey
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