Rights management is now well into the investigatory and specification
stages in OGC.
gerry
Gregor Mosheh wrote:
John Mitchell wrote:
How would I add support for user authentication within Mapserver for
GetCapablities and GetMap?
Sean's answer is basially right: You don't. Security is the webserver's
job, and not Mapserver's. In fact, none of the OGC WxS standards
supports security; they assume that the webserver has already done such
things before calling the application.
You would have to password protect the mapserv binary or the cgi-bin
directory which houses it, not just the one app nor just those functions
or layers.
I have often wondered why the OGC standards left out such a basic
concept as access control. Mysteries of the universe.
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