Hi Christoph,
Interesting info. Although HTTP Referer isn't a GI thing, it's a HTTP
thing; far pre-dating WMS. ESRI do similar non-standard things with the
standard HTTP headers.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 22/02/2020 19:23, Christoph Jung wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
I just misinterpreted the word “referer”. The reason for it in a nutshell:
My company uses Smallworld as the main gis and we have an extension to
display WMS layers in a more user friendly way (it is easier then the
standard WMS function, but very “Smallworld-like” anyway ^^). There is
a config file with the URLs of the services and also a ”referer” for
each of them: the copyright respectively the owner of the WMS. This
information will be displayed in the map view after making a WMS Layer
visible. I just saw an input field in QGIS named referer and thought,
it would be the same like in Smallworld. But one more thing Smallworld
is very different to other GI systems :D
Sincerely,
Christoph
Am 21.02.2020 um 22:49 schrieb Jonathan Moules
<jonathan-li...@lightpear.com>:
Hi Christoph,
What do you mean by "where will this referer be displayed"? I'm
guessing this is the HTTP referer in which case it's probably going
to be sent as a HTTP Header with every request WMS/XYZ request that
QGIS is making to the server (what I'd expect anyway). I guess this
is useful because for "security" reasons some servers only respond to
specific referers. The server operator will see it in their logs but
otherwise it's going to be invisible.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 18/02/2020 14:04, Christoph Jung wrote:
Hello everybody,
When configuring a new WMS or XYZ connection, I can insert a referer. Where
will this referer be displayed?
Sincerely,
Christoph
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