I kind of agree with Even in that this request is bogus and really does
seem like it should be fixed on the sender side. That said the patch
doesn’t seem too invasive so looks like a sensible solution to me as well.
The worry is that if the dispatcher starts to try to accommodate these
kinds of client bugs and peculiarities how far down that rabbit hole will
one go :)

$0.02

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:24 AM Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
> On vendredi 2 décembre 2016 17:52:37 CET Andrea Aime wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > recently I've been wrestling with QGIS sending really funny requests to
>
> > GeoServer, that are causing
>
> > a not so nice ClassCastException. Here is a sample, it's a POST request
> at
>
> > this URL:
>
>
>
> FYI, I've been emailed about the same issue but from the perspective of
> QGIS. Ultimately, this should be fixed in QGIS since such requests are
> wrong and I wouldn't expect a WFS server to make sense of them.
>
>
> Interesting... wondering how you're going to implement that? Like, wiping
> out everything past the ? won't work with mapserver, that
> normally needs a reference to a mapfile.
> But maybe just removing service/request/version would do the trick.
>
> Do you already know in which version of QGIS the fix will land?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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