Hi Devs, currently I am testing the http_auth module and I can say it is really cool. I will soon update the wiki page since we discovered, that when using php as a cgi module you will need one additional apache rewriting rule in order for http_auth to work. I have a question, about the general behaviour of the http_auth and the involved wms.php script. Since the module was developped for the Geoportal RLP its paradigm is a layer based approach to generating capabilities documents.
In my use case a central mapbender installation shall be used to serve different complete wms-services to the users, that themselves used also either a mapbender or a desktop GIS to consume the services. For this use-case it is not practical to have each layer of a wms served by separate capabilities document. That's why I would like to suggest an additional http_auth configuration parameter in mapbender.conf, that switches between either the layer based approach or a service based approach. In the service based variant when a getcapabilities request is made to any layer of a wms service the complete wms service with all layers is returned to the caller. At a first glance this is only a minimal change (atm if this wms based approach is requested, I just dont append the layer id to the sql querying a wms sublayers, wms.php line 775+), but I'm under the impression that wms.php is currently not able to handle nested layers. Can someone confirm this? If this is the case, I would have to look into wms.php to be able to retrieve also nested layer structures in a wms service, presumbly recursive. Are there any major objections to such a change, because of side-effects I haven't thought of? Armin, what do you think? Cheers, Michael -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Michael Schulz [email protected] in medias res Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH Schwimmbadstraße 2 D-79100 Freiburg i. Br. Tel: +49 (0)761 705798-102 Tel: +49 (0)761 705798-0 Fax: +49 (0)761 705798-09 http://www.webgis.de / http://www.zopecms.de -------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführer: Stefan Giese, Dr. Christof Lindenbeck Eingetragen im Handelsregister HRB 5930 beim Amtsgericht Freiburg _______________________________________________ Mapbender_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev
