[Mapserver-users] WMS Queries

[Daniel Morissette]

bartvde@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
>>2. Is it possible to use MapServer as a WMS client for a WMS that
>>requires HTTPS?
> 
> 
> Good question. I don't think this will be possible out-of-the-box, but I
> could be wrong. I only know of an option to supply a user/password to a
> WMS server which is protected by Basic Authentication. See e.g.:
> 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=581
> 


WMS connections to HTTPS servers should work *if* the CURL library that 
was used to build MapServer was built with SSL support. This happens by 
default on Linux, but I can't tell if the Windows builds include SSL... 
it's quite possible that they don't.

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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette@dmsolutions.ca
  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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