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Developer’s Corner: Authenticating dummy clients in GeoServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 26.03.2012 by simone giannecchini

In this blog post we'll introduce a simple authentication method we developed for GeoServer that allows to deal with security unaware clients.GeoServer can be configured to force a user to authenticate, either directly when trying to access the capabilities document (challenge mode) or when trying to access a protected resource (mixed mode). GeoServer will send a "http basic authentication" challenge, that will force browsers to show up the "username/password" authentication dialog, and make other desktop application ask and send over the user credentials.There are surely more secure means to authenticate a user, yet basic http authentication is the minimum common...

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Saving the world one application at a time: FAO Regional Fishery Bodies Viewer

Blog ‐ Posted on 20.03.2012 by simone giannecchini

At GeoSolutions we believe that success stories about important organizations and Open Source Software should be openly shared and they can be used as a measure of OSS success in the formal enterprise environment.  In this blog post we are going to quickly introduce some work we have done for the  Fishery and Acqualture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN).The FAO Fishery and Acqualture Department, specifically the FIGIS group; is involved in many efforts geared towards the conservation of the marine ecosystem and GeoSolutions is honored to work with them on some of the...

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Articolo di GeoSolutions su GeoServer ad ASITA 2011

Blog ‐ Posted on 29.02.2012 by simone giannecchini

Salve a tutti,con colpevole ritardo, mettiamo a disposizione dei nostri lettori l'articolo presentato alla conferenza ASITA dell'anno scorso.Una versione in pdf può essere scaricata qui.The GeoSolutions team,

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Developer’s Corner: Introducing Database Level Security in GeoServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 30.01.2012 by simone giannecchini

During our work we support manu GeoServer Enterprise installations which pull data from a spatial database of some sort, normally via a connection pool, a tool that keeps database connections around so that we don't have to open and close them at every request (something that could be very expensive).The pool accesses the database via a shared user, that all GeoServer requests end up using. Some requests only require data reading (WMS GetMap), others modify data (WFS Transaction), some even create new tables (RESTConfig data uploading for example). The pool user must be able to perform all and any of...

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GeoServer and GeoSolutions @ gvSIG Days 2011

Blog ‐ Posted on 30.11.2011 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions will attend the 5th edition of the gvSIG Conference, organized by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (CIT) from December 2nd until December 4th at the Feria Valencia Convention and Exhibition Center.  Ing. Simone Giannecchini will provide an introductive workshop on GeoServer, therefore make sure you take note of the exact time on the conference program and you make room in your schedule for attending the event.Check this link for more details.See you in Valencia!The GeoSolutions team.

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