All,

We’ve used this in the past , and to some extent still do, but it’s on the 
fringe right now.

One thing though, I always looked at this as a backup method to get something 
working when everything else didn’t work as well as some debugging of calls.

I use it mostly when trying to integrate more than one service together, or 
need to call a MapService from something like PERL for example.   It’s not 
something I generally depend on anymore, but I did cut my teeth on the 
capability while learning MapServer configuration steps, etc.

Bobb



From: MapServer-users <mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of 
Steve Lime <steve.l...@state.mn.us>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2022 at 11:17 AM
To: "mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [mapserver-users] Question on Feature Use

Think Before You Click: This email originated outside our organization.

Hi all: This is in regard to 
https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html#changing-map-file-parameters-via-a-form-or-a-url
 – we’re seriously thinking about dropping this functionality as part of 8.0. 
It’s just not as relevant as in the past with improvements runtime 
substitutions and SLD. This will allow us to simplify the code related to 
mapfile processing a good bit and just make things easier to maintain in the 
long run. I am curious if and how folks are using this feature – just to 
identify high-value use cases that we might need to address.

--Steve

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