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Re: [netcdf-java] Possibility for per-dataset http client?

> so the remote site issues a challenge. do you just pass it on to your user at 
> her web page, or have you cached her credentials?

Currently I imagine that the credentials (which may be a Grid proxy
certificate, boo hiss) will be cached on the server.  I was thinking
that the user would log on to my web app, thereby creating a session
object in which we can cache credentials.

Jon

2009/1/20 John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> Jon Blower wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>>> Are you managing a database of user/password credentials for the various 
>>> remote sites?
>> Yes, but currently I'm limited to one user/password combination for
>> each site, which won't work for me in a particular project.
>>
>>> Another design is that ncWMS has a single logon to each of your remote 
>>> sites.
>> Unfortunately I can't do this.  The remote site needs to know exactly
>> who is using ncWMS.
>
> so the remote site issues a challenge. do you just pass it on to your user at 
> her web page, or have you cached her credentials?
>



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