[udig-devel] Problems with SRS's

[Paul Ramsey]

On 8-May-06, at 10:29 PM, Ari Jolma wrote:
>
> I'll keep my WMS open for some time although I shouldn't probably  
> serve
> that data this way. That's the well-known European case for GI
> licencing. My solution in the future is to require a valid cookie  
> in the
> GetMap request, and one gets a valid cookie by logging in to the  
> site. I
> haven't noticed anything in the WMS specification for creating not
> public servers, are there any standard ways to doing it?

I would say using HTTP authentication is the standard way of doing  
it.  uDig supports basic HTTP authentication.  For even more security  
HTTP basic + SSL.  Since WMS / WFS runs over HTTP, anything supported  
by HTTP is available as standard WMS / WFS capabilities, in my mind.

P