[Qgis-user] Referer

[Christoph Jung]

Hello Jonathan,

I just misinterpreted the word “referer”. The reason for it in a nutshell:

My company uses Smallworld as the main gis and we have an extension to display WMS layers in a more user friendly way (it is easier then the standard WMS function, but very “Smallworld-like” anyway ^^). There is a config file  with the URLs of the services and also a ”referer” for each of them: the copyright respectively the owner of the WMS. This information will be displayed in the map view after making a WMS Layer visible. I just saw an input field in QGIS named referer and thought, it would be the same like in Smallworld. But one more thing Smallworld is very different to other GI systems :D

Sincerely,
Christoph 

> Am 21.02.2020 um 22:49 schrieb Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>:
> 
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> What do you mean by "where will this referer be displayed"? I'm guessing this is the HTTP referer in which case it's probably going to be sent as a HTTP Header with every request WMS/XYZ request that QGIS is making to the server (what I'd expect anyway). I guess this is useful because for "security" reasons some servers only respond to specific referers. The server operator will see it in their logs but otherwise it's going to be invisible.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On 18/02/2020 14:04, Christoph Jung wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> 
>> When configuring a new WMS or XYZ connection, I can insert a referer. Where will this referer be displayed? 
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Christoph
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