[Mapserver-users] Mapserver as WMS-client and authentication

[Daniel Morissette]

GeoIT wrote:
> 
> The problem: How I can tell Mapserver  (V.3.6, Maplab 2.01) to send user and
> password ?
> 
> Sending it as http://user:pwd@..... Via the browser works, but if I add it
> to CONNECTION-URL in the mapfile, a blank image is coming back.
> 
> Is there any other possibility to access secured layers from other WMS ?
> 

I haven't tested this, but I would suggest that you try with MapServer 
4.0.  It uses libcurl instead of libwww for its HTTP requests and it may 
well be that curl will accept the user:password@hostname in the 
connection string.  If it doesn't then please file an enhancement bug 
for this in bugzilla and we'll see what we can do to pass the 
user/password to curl.

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               morissette@dmsolutions.ca
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