In this chapter, you will learn how to use HTTPS to provide secure login from an OpenLayers app to your GeoServer-based services. You'll also learn about the building blocks of our proxy platform, Apache HTTPD, and Tomcat, and how to configure them. Next, we'll cover HTTPS and TLS, and you'll learn how to generate certificates to enable secure requests. You'll learn about GeoServer's user-access permissions that permit authorized users to access the server. Finally, we'll test out a secure login with curl and an OpenLayers web app.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Configuring the proxy
- HTTPS with TLS and certificates
- GeoServer authentication
- Secure login from OL
