Right you are, another hidden gem of the specification... I've assigned a ticket to this. It seems pretty important to my mind, so if others are busy, I'll fix it.
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2839 P. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, John Maurer <maur...@nsidc.org> wrote: > Dear MapServer users, > I recently discovered that MapServer (we are using 5.2.0) requires a SERVICE > parameter (i.e. SERVICE=WMS) in a GetMap OGC request even though this > parameter is not mentioned or required in the WMS 1.1.1 OGC specification > for GetMap requests: > > http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms > > It is strange that this is so since GetFeature and GetCoverage both require > the SERVICE paramter, but for whatever reason the GetMap spec doesn't. Kind > of an inconsistency in the OGC services, but MapServer needs to abide by it. > > This cropped up when a user contacted me that our WMS services were not > working in ArcGIS 9.2 after we upgraded MapServer from 4.9 to 5.2. After > discussion with ESRI, they pointed out that MapServer was throwing an error > about a missing SERVICE parameter because they do not include this parameter > in their GetMap requests. However, the SERVICE parameter should not be > required according to the spec. > > I modified our CGI to fill this parameter in by default if not provided as a > workaround, but a future release of MapServer should probably remove the > requirement for this parameter in GetMap requests. Or am I missing something > (always a possibility!)? Thanks! > Cheers, > > -- > John Maurer > Web/Database Applications Engineer > National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) > University of Colorado at Boulder > http://cires.colorado.edu/~maurerj > +1-303-586-1677 > ------------------------------------ > "Without geography, you're nowhere!" > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users