[Qgis-user] Referer

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Christoph,

Interesting info. Although HTTP Referer isn't a GI thing, it's a HTTP 
thing; far pre-dating WMS. ESRI do similar non-standard things with the 
standard HTTP headers.

Cheers,

Jonathan

On 22/02/2020 19:23, Christoph Jung wrote:
> 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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