Paul Ramsey kirjoitti: > > On 8-May-06, at 10:29 PM, Ari Jolma wrote: >> >> I'll keep my WMS open for some time although I shouldn't probably serve >> that data this way. That's the well-known European case for GI >> licencing. My solution in the future is to require a valid cookie in the >> GetMap request, and one gets a valid cookie by logging in to the site. I >> haven't noticed anything in the WMS specification for creating not >> public servers, are there any standard ways to doing it? > > I would say using HTTP authentication is the standard way of doing it. > uDig supports basic HTTP authentication. For even more security HTTP > basic + SSL. Since WMS / WFS runs over HTTP, anything supported by HTTP > is available as standard WMS / WFS capabilities, in my mind.
Yes, sure, I've just been using the cook-it-up-yourself cookie-authentication ... I see it's RTFM time. Good to know uDig supports the real thing. Ari > > P > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel -- Prof. Ari Jolma Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology tel: +358 9 451 3886 address: POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
