Sorry everyone, that should have gone to the [email protected] instead of @openlayers.... Thanks for you're response though, it is helpful
Ryan On 6/1/2010 1:17 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:08 PM, ext Ryan Williams wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> >> I know similar questions have been asked, but after searching for most >> of the morning I have yet to find an answer that I can get to work. >> >> I'm trying to make this work: Geoserver 2.0-SNAPSHOT is on one server >> with it's own domain; Our web server is on a different server in a >> different domain. >> My page is html with OpenLayers 2.9 and other JavaScript and it is >> served up by the web server (call it dev.mapping.com/maps.html). >> I'm able to display map images and legends from Geoserver and >> GeoWebCache, but when I attempt a WMS GetFeatureInfo request I receive a >> blank popup and firefox reports: "401 Full Authentication is required to >> access this resource" >> >> Now, I think this is due to the 'Same Origin Policy' and I may be able >> to setup a proxy to get around this. >> > This is incorrect. A 401 error is not issued because of a Same Origin Policy > violation. Instead, the request will simply not work/cause an error. > > Possibly, this is happening because the relative resource to dev.mapping.com > is actually protected: If you're requesting "/foo/wms/bar", and the URL > on dev.mapping.com is protected by some kind of auth, that could be your > problem, but without seeing your code I can't really imagine how this would > be without you knowing it. > > >> So, is this a situation where adding "dev.mapping.com" to the permitted >> hostnames in the Geoserver Proxy Administration UI should make this work? >> > Generally, GeoServer would only be able to proxy requests *out* from > geoserver.example.com -- not requests from remote.example.com *to* > geoserver.example.com. So unless something special is going on here that > I can't picture, I don' think so. > > >> Do I need to be setting the OpenLayers.ProxyHost variable? >> > Probably. > > >> (I realize >> this is an OpenLayers question) >> Is this something that needs to be setup on the web server instead? >> > The web server that is serving your HTML pages, yes. > > >> I've tried adding the hostname to the permitted hostnames in the >> Geoserver UI and haven't seen any changes. Am I completely >> misunderstanding what this proxy config is for? >> > I have never used GeoServer, but I think the answer is still yes. > > Regards, > -- Ryan Williams, GISP GIS Analyst / Programmer PAQ Interactive Inc. 107 S State St., Suite 300 Monticello, IL 61856-1968 Office: (217) 762-7955 Mobile: (217) 722-2794 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
