Try something like:
var url = layer.getFullRequestString({REQUEST: "GetCapabilities"});
OpenLayers.loadURL(url, '', null, function(response) {
alert(response.responseText); });
Replace the alert with something to parse the XML, like somebody suggested
before use Format.XML.
Best regards,
Bart
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--------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
Van: Ganesh Jothikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Naar: rldhont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Onderwerp: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] WMS GetCapabilities Requst
Datum: 26/11/07 11:56
> Hi rldhont
>
>
Thanks for the reply. yes I am aware of the XML format. And thanks for the
example also. But what I want is how to make the WMS GetCapabilities
request from Java Script using the OL APIs. It will be very helpfult if
someone could help me with a few lines of code..
>
> Thanks
> ganesh
> ----- Original Message ----From: rldhont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Monday, 26 November, 2007 7:18:10 PMSubject: Re:
[OpenLayers-Dev] WMS GetCapabilities RequstYou can use XML Format. Look at
the source code of this example
:http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/xml.html--------------------René-Luc
D'Hont3Liz SARLblog: http://3liz.org/blog/rldhontGanesh Jothikumar a écrit
:> Hi All> > I am using OpenLayers
with GeoServer. I am using OpenLayers > JavaScript APIs to render the WMS
layers present in GeoServer. Of the > layers I have one base layer and
multiple overlays. Now I need to > specify
> the bounding box values for the base map coverage layer in the >
OpenLayers.WMS function (maxExtent : bounds ) For thst I need to get >
the values from the GeoServer. After consulting the GeoServer guys I >
came to know that I have to do a WMS GetCapabilities request and parse >
the returned XML to get the BBox for my layer. What I want to know is >
how to make a WMS GetCapabilities request using OpenLayers and parse >
the returned XML. Any example would be highly useful. Or let me know > if
there is any other way of solving this...> > Thanks in
advance> ganesh> >>
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