In my quest for increased adoption of geospatial web services, I would constantly bash my head against the wall trying to debug GIS applications. So if you have suffered from “what the” behaviour such as …
- weird uri encoding
- apps pretending to talk SSL but only on some requests
- not supporting BASIC authentication when they say they do
- clients not sending the required STYLES WMS kvp
- sending hundreds upon hundreds of chunked requests …
then these scripts/apps may be for you. They are pretty generic and can be applied to any AJAX-type cross-domain restriction. The only OGC specific type line is the string replace of the online resource with the proxy uri (for obvious reasons for the getcapabilities document).
Other recommends ..
- For desktop based apps, i highly recommend fiddler2 as man in the middle proxy interceptor for debugging HTTP. It even does HTTPS mitm
- If you want to enable HTTPS/BASIC authentication on a desktop client that doesnt support it, check out InteProxy or email me for my own “Gismo” command line version. This will allow apps such as GRASS or QGIS which only has standard WMS support to magically start working on these services
But if you are just trying to get your poor OpenLayers application talking to that lonesome WFS server sitting on the interweb, these might come in handy!
Note that these are open proxies by default!
< ?php $urlparams = urldecode($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url."&Styles="); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Openlayers proxy - CTweedie hax"); // Set a different user-agent so we can track usage easier curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,1); //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // the next 3 lines makes it work through https SSL3 with authorization. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass); $data = curl_exec($ch); // Execute query $data = str_replace("https://www.wms.com/server/to/reflect/to?","https://www.wms.com/server/proxy?", $data) $content_type = curl_getinfo( $ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE ); header('Content-Type: '.$content_type); echo $data; curl_close($ch); >
Python equivalent … almost identical to the OpenLayers version. In most situations, py urllib runs hands down quicker than php curl but it could well be my dodgy code!
#!/usr/bin/env python -u import urllib import urllib2 import cgi import socket import msvcrt import os import sys msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY) # timeout in seconds timeout = 15 socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout) fs = cgi.FieldStorage() urlt = "https://www.wms.com/server/to/reflect/to?" for i in fs.keys(): urlt += i+"="+fs[i].value+"&" url = urllib.unquote(urlt) try: if url.startswith("http://") or url.startswith("https://"): passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() # this creates a password manager passman.add_password(None, urlt, 'user', 'password') # because we have put None at the start it will always use this username/password combination authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman) # create the AuthHandler opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) y = urllib2.urlopen(url) headers = str(y.info()).split('\n') for h in headers: if h.startswith("Content-Type:"): print h print print y.read().replace("https://www.wms.com/server/to/reflect/to?","https://www.wms.com/server/proxy?") y.close() else: print """Content-Type: text/plain Illegal request.""" except Exception, E: print "Status: 500 Unexpected Error" print "Content-Type: text/plain" print print url print "Some unexpected error occurred. Error text was:", E
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