Thank you Andrea, I will investigate this.

From: andrea.a...@gmail.com [mailto:andrea.a...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Andrea 
Aime
Sent: 29 July 2016 16:38
To: Chris Buckmaster
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Geosever security - WFS / WMS services and 
Openlayers

Hi Chris,
openlayers and the desktop clients are making pretty much the same OGC 
requests, so I don't believe
you can tell them apart using the built-in authorization mechanism.

But the mechanism is pluggable, so you could write your own that checks the 
incoming requests for
hints... hard to find a solid solution, but some ideas off the top of my head 
(warning, only thought about it a split minute):
* Desktop clients _may_ setup the "user agent" HTTP header in a way that can be 
recognized, or you
  could just whitelist the user agents of most browsers (mind,   you might end 
up blocking uncommon browsers in the process, and possibly the ones in 
incognito mode too)
* If the openlayers based client is written by you, you could add an extra 
vendor parameter to the GetMap requests, it's normally
  hard/impossible to make common desktop clients to do the same.

Both approaches are weak against someone resourceful writing his own client and 
spoofing the right
params/user agent values by examining your web client of course.

Cheers
Andrea


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Chris Buckmaster 
<chris.buckmas...@runnymede.gov.uk<mailto:chris.buckmas...@runnymede.gov.uk>> 
wrote:
Hi

I am running Geoserver version 2.5 and have an Openlayers 3 web map application 
which accesses some WMS and WFS services from the Geoserver instance.

At the moment I haven’t configured any authentication so it is running the 
default settings.

What I would like is to allow this to continue so my Openlayers application has 
full access to all of the layers on Geoserver, but for anyone accessing my WMS 
/ WFS (i.e through QGIS), I would like to include a username / password or 
restrict the layers visible through these services.

I have had a quick look the manual trying to understand how this works but 
cannot seem to grasp it – I know there are authentication settings within the 
web interface, but would these not be for the whole of Geoserver? How am I able 
to allow access to my Openlayers application, but also restrict access to the 
WFS / WMS services for desktop users wanting to view my services?

Thanks, Chris

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