Sorry for butting in - but I think it would be much more productive to fix/enhance the gdal WCS driver than to implement a standalone qgis provider.
Etienne On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes - Radim already made a first pass implementation using GDAL WCS >> though he said there were some problems with it - I think the most >> critical being that it doesn't support proxy access (I am speaking >> under correction here as I haven't looked into it in that much detail >> myself). > > This should be rather easy to add. It is just a matter of setting the right > option to CPLHTTPFetch() (and thus the curl library), namely : > > <li>PROXY=val, to make requests go through a proxy server, where val is of the > form proxy.server.com:port_number > <li>PROXYUSERPWD=val, where val is of the form username:password > > Note: They can also already be used by setting the GDAL_HTTP_PROXY and > GDAL_HTTP_PROXYUSERPWD configuration options/environmenet variable, which will > act on all GDAL/OGR drivers that go through the CPLHTTPFetch() function. > > I see Radim is already a GDAL committer, so there shouldn't be too much > overhead > if he wants to hack in the WCS driver. > >> I will let Radim comment on any other issues. I think from >> the project perspective we don't mind too much which approach is used >> if the result is efficient and integrates nicely into QGIS. >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> >> >> -- >> Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) >> ============================================== >> Please do not email me off-list with technical >> support questions. Using the lists will gain >> more exposure for your issues and the knowledge >> surrounding your issue will be shared with all. >> >> Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: >> * QGIS programming and support services >> * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans >> * FOSS Consulting Services >> Skype: timlinux >> Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net >> ============================================== >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
