Thanks a lot, Rossco! It's hardly top secret, but I want to protect my data ;-)
On Jan 14, 3:46 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a big KML data file, with lots of cool stuff in it. > > > 1) Does the client request this, or does google fetch it, and > > integrate it with my map? It seems to me that Google fetches it? > > Yes, or maybe no. It all depends on what you are doing. Let's guess > that you displaying it on a map using KmlLayer, then yes it does not > get requested by the client, but by Google's servers. > > > 2) I'd like to at least add a little security to this, so that only > > registered users of my service can see this data. Any ideas? If google > > is fetching it, maybe IP based restrictions on requests for the file? > > But if anyone attempts to view your top-secret file using KmlLayer, > the requests all originate from Google ... > Limiting access to Google-originated requests would stop unauthorised > people downloading your file directly, but they can still view it, > display it on their own maps, and could reconstruct it if they wanted > to do so badly enough. > > I don't think there is any easy way to identify what IPs Google's > requests might originate from, that will vary depending on the end- > users location and will probably change every week, so it might not be > easy at all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
