Hi, Why don't you use "wms_exceptions_format" "application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage" ?
Regards, Y. Le Tuesday 06 November 2007 17:35:17 Trond Michelsen, vous avez écrit : > Hi. > > In my mapfile, I have several layers with connectiontype WMS. Once in > a while, the WMS-servers that deliver these layers will fail, usually > due to high load, and return an application/vnd.ogc.se_xml > exception. In these cases, I'd like mapserver to return an exception > as well, but instead, mapserver will just log the error message in > MS_ERRORFILE, and continue drawing the rest of the layers. If there > are no more layers, it will result in a blank image. > > (BTW: I've also noticed the same behaviour if the remote wms-server > answers with an internal server error) > > Here's the layer definition that I use for testing. exception.cgi will > always return a dummy XML exception. > > LAYER > NAME "exception" > TYPE RASTER > STATUS ON > CONNECTION "http://wms1.oslo.dnmi.no/cgi-bin/exception.cgi" > CONNECTIONTYPE WMS > OFFSITE 255 255 254 > METADATA > "wms_srs" "EPSG:4326" > "wms_name" "exception" > "wms_server_version" "1.1.1" > "wms_formatlist" "image/png" > "wms_format" "image/png" > "wms_exceptions_format" "application/vnd.ogc.se_xml" > END #metadata > END #layer > > Is there something I can do to force mapserver to fail, and return an > exception if it fails to draw any of the wms-layers? > > I'm using mapserver 4.10 > > $ cgi-bin/mapserv -v > MapServer version 4.10.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP > OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER > SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT > SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=EPPL7 > INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE DEBUG=MSDEBUG -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org