Hi, I am looking into http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4615 out of a report that some WMS 1.1 client cannot handle GS geotiff output because the content type does not correspond 1-1 to the value declared in the request and found this in the spec:
------------------------------------------ The return value of a valid Service request shall correspond to the type requested in the FORMAT parameter. In an HTTP environment, the Content-type header of the response shall be exactly the MIME type given in the request. ------------------------------------------ Now... the spec is overall a bit retarded on this. One can have output formats that do not have an official mime type or have variants around, they should have allowed to associate a descriptive name with a standard mime type in the capabilities document, something like <Format mime="image/tiff">geotiff</Format> but I guess we're way too late for that. Anyways, I see that the WMS 1.3 capabilities output lists only mime types instead. Nice, but doing so it shaves off a few formats as well, there is no more a distinction between geotiff and tiff, nor there is a distinction between png and png8, tiff and tiff8, geotiff and geotiff8. This is not just cutting away handy aliases, it's cutting away functionality. I guess the only way to handle this is starting to be creative about mime types? image/png; mode=8bit image/tiff; mode=8bit image/geotiff image/geotiff; mode=8bit and then roll out in the capabilites new output formats with that mime as the output? Opinions? Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
