Re: [Geoserver-users] Protect only a few WFS layers of a workspace by user and password in the form http://user:password@myserver/...

2016-09-22 Thread Andrea Aime
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 4:31 PM, dimmihel < dimitrios.michela...@improvementservice.org.uk> wrote: > Hi again, > > I feel that the documentation provided in the pop-up box in the Geoserver > GUI within /*Edit Workspace --> Services --> Workspace Specific Services*/ > needs some polishing. It is

Re: [Geoserver-users] Protect only a few WFS layers of a workspace by user and password in the form http://user:password@myserver/...

2016-09-22 Thread dimmihel
Hi again, I feel that the documentation provided in the pop-up box in the Geoserver GUI within /*Edit Workspace --> Services --> Workspace Specific Services*/ needs some polishing. It is an important section for Geoserver users. The following workflow makes a Geoserver workspace restricted to

Re: [Geoserver-users] Protect only a few WFS layers of a workspace by user and password in the form http://user:password@myserver/...

2016-09-22 Thread dimmihel
Hi Christian Mueller-3, Thanks for your post. Can you elaborate on your suggestion to: /"Put all your public WMS layers in a separate workspace and *restrict this workspace to WMS access.*"/? Are you talking about performing the following process? (a) Create workspace (i.e. "public_wms") (b)

Re: [Geoserver-users] Protect only a few WFS layers of a workspace by user and password in the form http://user:password@myserver/...

2015-12-30 Thread Christian Mueller
Hi Andy Sending username/password as URL parameters is a bad practice (think about the browser history) and is not supported by GeoServer. You have to do the following steps. - add a user (optional add a user group and add the user to the group) - add a role and and attach this role to the user

Re: [Geoserver-users] Protect only a few WFS layers of a workspace by user and password in the form http://user:password@myserver/...

2015-12-30 Thread sulu
Hi Christian. Thanks for your reply. I wanted to use just one Workspace in order to hav one single URL to call my services but i can live with several Worspaces. My main issue right now is: How can i bring geoserver to ask for a password for a specific layer (or workspace) so that i can provice

Re: [Geoserver-users] Protect only a few WFS layers of a workspace by user and password in the form http://user:password@myserver/...

2015-12-29 Thread Christian Mueller
Hi Andy I am not sure if I get my hands around your problem. My proposal would be: Put all your public WMS layers in a separate workspace and restrict this workspace to WMS access. Create a workspace for protected WFS Layers and restrict access to WFS. Now, you can add an authentication