[udig-devel] Problems with SRS's

[Ari Jolma]

Paul Ramsey kirjoitti:
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> On 8-May-06, at 10:29 PM, Ari Jolma wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.


Yes, sure, I've just been using the cook-it-up-yourself
cookie-authentication ... I see it's RTFM time. Good to know uDig
supports the real thing.

Ari


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