Michał,
Why service credentials (username & password) can not be entered with
open options (*-oo UserPwd=user:pass*) when working with OGC services
(tested against WMS)?
The usual answer: because nobody has implemented that yet /
contributions welcome. The bulk of the development of the WM
Dear Laurentiu,
I don't use command line tools. I use GDAL API. I only used them here to
show the problem.
For similar reasons I wouldn't even like to use global configuration
options :-)
In my opinion, the most clean way to do it is to hide credentials in
dataset instance.
Michał
wt., 29 paź 202
Hi,
It's unlikely to be a problem for you, but credential passing via command-line
arguments is considered an anti-pattern because they're visible by other users
who might be looking at the running process list. Environment variables are
better because other users can't inspect them.
Of course
OK, I understand. I'm not a C/C++ programmer, but I might try to contribute
to GDAL in the future.
Last time I gave up trying to build GDAL from source. The CMAKE setup was
beyond me, so i started to use conda binaries.
regards
Michał
wt., 29 paź 2024 o 14:35 Even Rouault
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> Michał,
Hi GDAL friends!
Why service credentials (username & password) can not be entered with open
options (*-oo UserPwd=user:pass*) when working with OGC services (tested
against WMS)?
I know there is a config option *GDAL_HTTP_USERPWD=value* but it's not
clean solution in my opinion. Credential should
