password protected WMS-service

[ArneDahlman]

We need to add a password protected WMS-service.
Any one know if this is possible?

I don't find anything on this in the API-documentation. Also, there is no 'Token' property in WmsLayer class.

[JenniferNery]

Yup that SLProxyPage. You can modify this item with your server URL and credentials you need to authenticate against.

    <serverItem url="http://net931/ArcGIS/rest/services"
                matchAll="true" domain="net931" username="rex" password="rex" />

Drop the ProxyPage folder to your C:\inetpub\wwwroot

In your IIS Manager, you can convert this folder to application and under IIS Authentication, disable Anonymous Authentication and enable either Basic or Windows Authentication.

[ArneDahlman]

Thanks for your reply.

I think there might be some misunderstanding here.

I have a Silverlight application hosted on server A.
From this application I want to use a WMS-service hosted on server B. Server B is on the Internet.
I don't have access to server B, other than the user/password for this service.

I tried to deploy SLProxyPage on server A, with the settings you suggest.
When I run my application I get prompted for user/password  (here I used Basic Authentication in IIS-manager). The only user/password that seems to be accepted here, is one for server A. Then after a while I get a 500 response (using fiddler).
If I instead configure IIS to use Integrated Windows Authentication, I don't get prompted for user/password, but the result is the same (500 response).

So I think that this will only work if SLProxyPage is deployed on server B.
Can this be correct?

[ArneDahlman]

OK, now I think I solved this.

I made some code changes in SLProxyPage.

There where three main problems:
1. Only working with ArcGIS server typeof URLs.
2. No support for internet proxy
3. Failed to download images with no content-length in response.

After I have completed the changes and run some tests. I'll add the modified SLProxyPage to this thread, in case some one is interested.

[JenniferNery]

That is good to know. I'm interested to see the updates you made to SLProxyPage too. 🙂

[ArneDahlman]

Here is the code.

It's possible to configure internetproxy in proxy.config
If no proxy is configured default is used.

The url handling can be improved further, (Search for "url_401 = url.Substring(0, url.IndexOf("Server") + 6)")