You might consider implementing an specific wms access control proxy. 52North offers this on their open source stack:
http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/security/ steve.tout...@inspq.qc.ca schreef: > > Hi, > I defined a WMS Raster layer that I use in my OpenLayers/GeoExt apps, > I would like to control the access to this WMS, so people can use it > via my application, but can not "call" the WMS to use it in their > client application. The reason is there is a "context" that comes with > this WMS. Without it the data can be misinterpreted. > > I already posted this thread on OpenLayers list. It seems that the > solution could be on the server side with Apache. Someone suggested to > limit the access with a user and password or other functionality with > Apache. > > My application will be public so there is no user and password but I > still need to control the access to this particular WMS layer. > Is there something I can control using MapServer? > > thanks for your help! > Steve > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users