Hi Guan On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Guan Wang <gw...@glc.org> wrote: > > What's your goal? For me, it's like you are looking for a solution to only > allow authorized users consuming your WMS services. Then it doesn't sound > like a role for Geoserver. It gotta be something above GeoServer to take > this responsibility. >
I am already using a really good one (GeoNode), but now I have the task to create a viewer external from the GeoNode context using private layers, this is why I am looking at what is the best way to authenticate with GeoServer > I would suggest you leaving Geoserver along and use a proxy server on top of > GeoServer for authentication. > That is exactly what I have ended up with ;) > BTW, I can't see why extending Leaflet could be an alternative since it's > just a client sied javascript library, isn't it? > A possible approach we were considering is with XMLHttpRequest, setting the headers for basic auth, and feed the viewer with json, using WFS instead than WMS. But you are right, this is not applicable to WMS. regards p -- Paolo Corti Geospatial software developer web: http://www.paolocorti.net twitter: @capooti skype: capooti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
