Support password protected WMS

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:m: BIIGLE module to explore images on a world map

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Support password protected WMS #62

Open mtiessen1175 opened 2 days ago

mtiessen1175 commented 2 days ago

Web map services that require authentication (username & password) are not yet supported in the geo-overlay upload. This would be highly desired according to an expert user.

Possible steps:

Detect if WMS is password protected (through provided URL, maybe querying with request=getCapabilities ?).
Present credentials dialog to the user
Access secured WMS (an idea would be to use the OpenLayers LoadFunction and customize it as in example 1 or example 2)

mzur commented 2 days ago

I'd recommend to store the credentials when the WMS layer is created (on the volume edit page) and then store them encrypted in the WMS JSON column. Then the layer can be used by all users who have access to the volume.