Re: Have Geoportal's WMS requests in server or client?
Stephan Holl <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gis.freegis |
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| Organization | Intevation GmbH |
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Hello Jan-Oliver, "Jan-Oliver Wagner" <[email protected]>, [20070510 - 10:31:54] > Hello, > > in the frame of security issues I came across the question what > the particular reasons are why geo-portals (MapBender, iGeoPortal, > p.mapper etc) do not execute WMS requests entirely on the client side > (in JavaScript, like OpenLayers does) but rather do it on the server > side (some do only GetCapabilities, some also GetMap). > > The reasons I could imagine are: > * it was easier t o implement it this way > * with intensive JavaScript use we exclude some browsers. > > I am extremely intersted if there are reasons beyond these > and would be thankful for any feedback. Probably MapBuilder does the GetMap-Requests on client-side, but I am not sure, need to check. Probably someone can answer more clearly here? Best Stephan -- Stephan Holl <[email protected]>, http://intevation.de/~stephan Tel: +49 (0)541-33 50 8 32 | Intevation GmbH | AG Osnabrück - HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner