Topic: User authentication with WMS web service
According to the documentation (http://data.nbn.org.uk/Documentation/We … WMSDetails) the NBN Gateway WMS - unlike the SOAP web services - does not require a registration key.
I have no problem using the WMS with public access - i.e. not supplying any user credentials - but problems when I try to supply username and userkey parameters. In the documentation example, the userkey is given as 'HASHED_PASSWORD'.
I'm having trouble with this. I cannot find any specification in the NBN Gateway documentation of what the 'HASHED_PASSWORD' should be. I've used a routine (VB.NET) to create an MD5 hashed password with mixed results - this morning it worked for one user and not another and now it works for neither!
Can I have some more details with respect to exactly what is required by the WMS service in terms of encoding the passwords?
Many thanks,
Rich
Biodiversity Project Officer
Field Studies Council