After preparing my last post, I noticed the strange numbers (really the fact that I got two different ones) for the single quotes when I encoded the URL (%91 and %92) that was failing:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/testing/dynamic.map&map.layer[line]=DATA%20%91id3/vector%92%20END&layers=line&mode=map And, after looking closer, I realized there were "smart" rather than regular (as in %27) single quotes. Once I changed them the following URL worked fine in the browser after all: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/testing/dynamic.map&map.layer[line]=DATA 'id3/vector' END&layers=line&mode=map So, I thought, my attempts at trying to figure out what the bigger problem I was having had failed to this point. I did not have "smart" quotes in the WMC for that <Layer> definition (as shown in the original post) but I was unable to create an output image with it. Then, I thought of Obsidian's suggestion and changed the <LayerList><Layer> definition as follows (see the blanks replaced with %20 in the <OnlineResource> values): <Layer queryable="0" hidden="0" clid="id3vector"> <Server service="OGC:WMS" version="1.1.1" title="Id3 Vector"> <OnlineResource xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://<domain>/ogc/printVecWms_en?map.layer[line]=DATA%20'id3/vector'%20END"/> </Server> <Name>line</Name> <Title>id3 vector</Title> <SRS>EPSG:42304</SRS> <FormatList> <Format current="1">image/png</Format> </FormatList> <StyleList> <Style current="1"> <Name>default</Name> <Title>default</Title> <LegendURL format="image/png" width="47" height="294"> <OnlineResource xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://<domain>/ogc/printVecWms_en?version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=GetLegendGraphic&map.layer[line]=DATA%20'id3/vector'%20END&layer=line&format=image/png&STYLE=default"/> </LegendURL> </Style> </StyleList> <Extension> <ol:maxExtent minx="-2903297" miny="-789911" maxx="3431059" maxy="3959683"/> <ol:transparent>true</ol:transparent> <ol:isBaseLayer>false</ol:isBaseLayer> <ol:displayInLayerSwitcher>true</ol:displayInLayerSwitcher> </Extension> </Layer> And, low and behold, I have an image with the dynamic shapefile's contents included. Yay!!! Thank you, Jeff and Obsidian, for your pointers towards things to look more closely at. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/mode-map-with-WMC-of-dynamic-Layer-failing-with-getString-error-tp5824774p5831449.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users