moral support, at the very least :-) I'll forward it on to the OGC as well - and see if I can get a response. There is an emerging discussion on HTTP protocol and browser-friendliness...
Rob On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> wrote: > Hi, > tried implement the OWS 2.0 policy of returning proper HTTP status > codes when a service exception is returned. > > The patch attached to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4255 > has the basics of it: > - a new class to represent the ows error code and its correspondent > status code > - changed service exception > - changed the wps module to use the new code class as an example > - made the service exception handlers set the status code > (start the JVM with -DOWS10_HTTP_ERROR_CODES=true to have > the codes set on WMS/WFS) > > Now, what's wrong with it? Well, it basically makes debugging from > a browser impossible. > When a 500 or a 400 is set as the status code without also setting > the content type to html the browser just says that the web page is > not there, and does not offer to download the service exception > at all! > This basically means you have to use a non browser client, > such as "curl", to actually get the error message. Which is ridicolous. > > In order to get anything to display HTTPServletResponse.sendError(code, > message) > can be used, but at that point the container sets the content type to > html and builds a little web page around the message, disallowing > to use any other content type or... content. > > I hope there is some workaround, otherwise this seemingly good > idea is going to turn into a tragedy (and one we won't be able > to avoid since OWS 2.0 will be the base for future specs...) > > Suggestions, fixes to my eventually broken understanding, > moral support... all greatly appreciated... > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Ing. Andrea Aime > Senior Software Engineer > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584962313 > fax: +39 0584962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, > new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, > OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
