README

This repository is deprecated. Its functionality has been integrated into the mapbender core repository in version 3.3.0.

Old description: OWS Proxy

Can be used to relay requests and results form clients to servers that are otherwise not directly accessible to the client.

Features

• Proxy access is secured by checking a signature on the target URL (signing service provided by Mapbender)
• Prohibits to communicate with not verified URL's
• Allows to use server proxies
• Uses a HTTP proxy to work in tightly secured environments
• Logs proxy calls for billing

Configuration

The configuration is done in app/config/config.yml at ows_proxy3_core section.

Options

Proxy

Proxy option allows to communicate services via custom proxy server. The option needs some own configurations:

• host: Proxy server host name. If set to null, OwsProxy works without proxy.
• port: Proxy server port number.
• timeout: Give up if OwsProxy doesn't retrieve response from given proxy in number seconds. Default: 60 seconds.
• connecttimeout: Give up if OwsProxy doesn't reach host in number seconds. Default: 30 seconds.
• user: Proxy server user name. Default: null.
• password: Proxy server password for proxy server. Default: null.
• noproxy: Exclude hosts from connecting through proxy server. Default: null. Hostnames and IP's can be given as an YAML array.
• checkssl: Checks SSL. Default: false

Configuration example

ows_proxy3_core:
    logging: true               
    obfuscate_client_ip: true 
    proxy:                
        connecttimeout: 30    
        timeout: 60           
        host: localhost            
        port: 8080                 
        noproxy:               
            - localhost           
            - 127.0.0.1           

Sequence diagram