Re: [Qgis-user] Need Help Testing of WMS Authentication

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Willis
gsherman wrote: I have implemented basic HTTP authentication for the QGIS WMS provider and am looking for some volunteers to test it. The changes have not been committed to the QGIS SVN repository. Testing will require compiling from source. When creating or editing WMS connection in QGIS you

Re: [Qgis-user] WFS/WMS layers behind HTTP/HTTPS basic auth

2009-04-17 Thread Peter Willis
Is there any way to use HTTP basic auth with QGIS WMS? Currently there is no support for this but its something a few people have requested now. I recommend adding an enhancement ticket to trac and we will hopefully add support for this in the near future. Thanks Tim Is there already a

Re: WG: [Qgis-user] WMS Layers TITLE entity

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Willis
Hello, Thanks for the information. Which version of QGIS is the OSGEO 1.0.1-Kore ? With that install/version I am still just getting the server name as the default layer name. I'll ask at OSGEO to see who is doing the package builds... Peter Hugentobler Marco wrote: -Ursprüngliche

Re: [Qgis-user] Relational Databases and PostGIS formatting of Vector Data

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Willis
Alex Mandel wrote: I'm a little lost here, in my experience a vector layer becomes a table, not multiple tables and all the geometries are stored in a blob column no matter what type it is. That's what I'm curious about. Each vector is becoming a table unto itself. That's not proper normal

[Qgis-user] WFS/WMS layers behind HTTP/HTTPS basic auth

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Willis
Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to get QGIS to request the basic auth user name and password for WMS/WFS URLs that are protected by HTTP basic auth. When I put a URL (that uses basic auth) into the WMS server connections I just get an error that the return message is misunderstood when

[Qgis-user] Problem Connecting to PostgreSQL database for PostGIS on localhost in MS Windows

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Willis
Hello, I have a PostGIS enabled database on my MS windows workstation. I can connect to the database fine with other tools such as pgadmin. When I try to use the 'Shapefile to PostGIS Import Tool' I can't connect to PostgreSQL on localhost. Is there anything additional that I need to do to

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem Connecting to PostgreSQL database for PostGIS on localhost in MS Windows [RESOLVED]

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Willis
Hello, I just resolved this by installing version 1.0 using the OSGEO installer. Everything appears to work fine now. Thanks Peter Peter Willis wrote: Hello, I have a PostGIS enabled database on my MS windows workstation. I can connect to the database fine with other tools such as pgadmin

[Qgis-user] Relational Databases and PostGIS formatting of Vector Data

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Willis
Hello, I just ingested a MULTIPOLYGON vector into a PostGIS enabled database and realized that each vector becomes a unique TABLE in the database. Is this really necessary? Why not use proper relational database techniques and have all vectors of a specific type go into a single table with a