Protect our WMS map tiles to only accessible from our site

Asked Aug 07 '13 at 08:59

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We are using geoserver (2.3) to serve WMS map tiles generated from mapping data we licenced. We use leaflet on the client side to show the map (part of a ruby on rails site running on heroku). Because of the licence of the mapping data, we should not allow anybody to use these map tiles, it should be only accessible by our users when they are using the map on our website.

Is there any way to avoid somebody just taking the WMS URL from our javascript code and using it on another site? Or bulk downloading all the map tiles?

We can configure the geoserver to require username/password or certificate, but then we would need to expose it to the client side.

Thanks!

asked Aug 07 '13 at 08:59

zsombornagy

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Have you looked at these questions: http://gis.stackexchange.com/search?q=WMS+password+is%3Aquestion – Devdatta Tengshe Aug 07 '13 at 09:11
Hi! Thanks, yes, I've looked at these, but I didn't really get what we needed. But I'll read them again, maybe I missed something. – zsombornagy Aug 07 '13 at 09:54
This question should provide useful leads: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/5686 – Devdatta Tengshe Aug 07 '13 at 10:28
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Thanks! So reading through all this, it seems like the best solution would be to proxy the WMS requests through our web server so we can rely on the user session to only serve our authenticated users. Does that sound right? – zsombornagy Aug 08 '13 at 06:29
That is correct. – Devdatta Tengshe Aug 08 '13 at 07:12

Protect our WMS map tiles to only accessible from our site

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