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CUAHSI / HydroDesktop

HydroDesktop is a free and open source GIS enabled desktop application that helps you search for, download, visualize, and analyze hydrologic and climate data registered with the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System. HydroDesktop is part of the legacy CUAHSI toolkit and is not under active development. Click the "releases" link below to download the latest installer for Microsoft Windows.
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Connect to Password-Protected Data Source #107

Open xhqiao89 opened 7 years ago

xhqiao89 commented 7 years ago

jirikadlec2[CodePlex]
In the deployment process before a final standards-compliant WaterOneFlow web service is published, the requirement often arises for restricting access to the data (for example only authorized users may use the GetValues - quotData Downloadquot method).

The standard way of password-protecting a web resource on Apache server is quotbasic http authentication with sslquot. In this method the WaterOneFlow web service is in a password-protected folder on the server (for example:

https://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/kala/wfs.pl?request=GetCapabilities)

The second method built-in CUAHSI HydroServer is the quotauthentication tokenquot: In order to download data, user must own a special quottokenquot and supply it as the quotauthTokenquot parameter of the GetValues method.

Proposed change of HydroDesktop: In the quotadd data source - local data sourcequot: user may specify the username and password if required.

xhqiao89 commented 7 years ago

cuylerfris[CodePlex]
Discussion required - leaving marked as proposed