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WMS Server Technology
WMS Server Technology
The WMS server functions using the HTTP GET method. For a full discussion of HTTP and its methods,
refer to the Internet Engineering Task Force HTTP specification (www.ietf.org).
HTTP GET
The GET method retrieves whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-
URI. If the Request-URI refers to a data-producing process, it is the produced data that is returned as
the entity in the response and not the source text of the process, unless that text happens to be the
output of the process.
For the Web Map Service, the GET method is used to retrieve entire images from whatever server is
being accessed.
Basic Authentication
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Usually a Web Map Service is open to the general public and needs no authentication. From time to
time, a server may limit access to only authorized users. MapInfo Spatial Server allows you to access
WMS servers that use HTTP Basic Authentication. When defining a WMS layer, you can add a username
and password to your Connection URL. The format of the HTTP URL is:
wms:http://:@
For example:
wms:http://admin:admin@localhost:8008/rest/EnterpriseMapping/WMS?
If you do not want to include IDs or passwords in a WMS request query, you have the option to set authentication
in your client by including additional information in the HTTP header on the Web page. The
following is a sample HTTP header that includes basic authorization information:
GET /rest/EnterpriseMapping/WMS?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities HTTP/1.1
Authorization: BASIC YWRtaW46aDdhU1ZEd2o3RVd5a1gzRUhNbW5Pdz09
User-Agent: Java/1.4.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Connection: keep-alive
MapInfo Spatial Server 1.0