[Tilecache] Tilecache Authentication

[Gissur Þórhallsson]

On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:48:03 you wrote:
>> > Not to mention that if you are using several URL-s for simultaneously
>> > fetching tiles, it will likely make you authenticate for EACH of them - >>
>> Humm, if the tiles are coming from the same server - which is lik> ely - 
>> I don't think the browser will prompt you for each tile. Once the

> That's exactly what I was referring to by saying multiple URL-s - the 
> first.server.com, second.server.com approach (what would be the point of 
> using multiple url-s from a _single_ domain ?). It's _designed_ to fool the 
> browser into treating these as separate servers - it's just that the 
> HTTP_AUTH approach backfires on this, badly (personally, I'd rather forego 
> HTTP_AUTH than multi-server loading).

But what about Digest Authentication? Make the user log in to access the client and then set up digest authentication schemes between the client and the data server(s), you could then define your own timeout schemes if need be.

Kind regards,
Gissur

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