Authentication

If a map or dataset is marked as private to a user or group, then you will have to authenticate requests to GeoIQ in order to load these. Currently GeoIQ Maps requires authentication to happen via session keys. Session keys are requested by making an authenticated request to the server and using the returned session cookie data:

curl -I -X POST -u "username:password" http://geocommons.com/sessions.json

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Set-Cookie: _f1gc_session_session08f8=BAh7BjoPc...rest of session key...2e8e7; domain=http://geocommons.com; path=/; HttpOnly
Content-Length: 32129
Status: 200
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

If the authentication fails, then GeoIQ will return a “401 Authorization Required”

Then the session and authentication can be used in the map creation as shown here:

var sample_map = new F1.Maker.Map( ..., "f1_session_id": "_f1gc_session_08f8", "f1_auth" : "BAh7BjoPc...rest of session key...2e8e7")