I thought 5.2.1 fixed this already? Steve
>>> On 12/22/2008 at 5:13 PM, in message <30fe546d0812221513i32dc690dn703d65111f590...@mail.gmail.com>, "Paul Ramsey" <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users