Re: Have Geoportal's WMS requests in server or client?

Stephan Holl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.freegis
Organization Intevation GmbH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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