Re: WMS access via https authentication

Hi Nicholas,

Shouldn't CURLOPT_URL be set to the URL of the WMS layer instead?

With regards,
Liu Shan Shui
http://lx.sg/
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am a novice user to CURL but not PHP. I was hoping someone could give me
> a heads up on a problem I am tackling for which I have had trouble finding
> suitable examples. As such it feels like I am banging away in the dark.
>
> I need to access this WMS layer:
>
>
> https://www2.landgate.wa.gov.au/ows/wmspublic?service=wms&version=1.1.1&request=GetMap&format=image/png&width=800&height=600&transparent=false&layers=LGATE-001&bbox=115.8479,-31.9083,115.8626,-31.8984&SRS=EPSG:4326 ?- (the wms page I need to access)
>
> served from a government website which requires a user name and password
> prior to accessing the WMS which uses https basic authentication.
>
> https://www2.landgate.wa.gov.au/slip/portal/home/home.html  ?-(the login
> page)
>
> the code I have so far is below  I get a http_code of 200 and an error code
> of 0 but i'm not really sure what this means or where to go from here. i.e.
> the flow of pages etc.
>
> <?php
> // create a new cURL resource
> $ch = curl_init();
> $demo='
> https://www2.landgate.wa.gov.au/siteminderagent/forms/slip_login_frame.fcc
> ';
>
> $username = 'username';
> $password = 'password';
>
> // set URL and other appropriate options
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$demo");
> curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_content_type,"text/xml");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
> curl_setopt($cURL,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$username:$password");
>
> // grab URL and pass it to the browser
> $data=curl_exec($ch);
> $info=curl_getinfo($ch);
> //var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT));
> echo $info['http_code'];
> echo "\n\ncURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);
>
> print_r("$data");
> ?>
>
> I would greatly appreciate any advice. As you can see I am not sure even
> where to start.
>
> nicholas
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