[mapserver-users] misterious disappearing of black color in cascading wms

Hi there. I'm having this weird problem where in my cascaded wms layer it seems black is gone... I tried every combination possible of output formats and transparency and still can't solve this... Can anyone take a look? I can post the mapfile. Thanks. Image directly from original wms server <

Re: [mapserver-users] misterious disappearing of black color in cascading wms

feeling a bit silly... just solved it. The culprit was a "OFFSITE 0 0 0" I had on the cascaded layer... Removing it solved the problem. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/misterious-disappearing-of-black-color-in-cascading-wms-tp5056214p5056218.html Sent fro

[mapserver-users] cascading wms and layer names encoding

Hi everybody (this always reminds me of Barney from the simpsons...) Anyway, I'm battling with cascading a wms layer that has human readable names... like with spaces and other characters that MapServer urlencodes... So when I have in my mapfile: LAYER (...) METADATA wms_name "layer with un

Re: [mapserver-users] cascading wms and layer names encoding

Jukka, thanks for your reply. Some wms clients do not use the title from layers. They only show the name (eg qgis). As it stands, my wms server creates wms layers names automatically from my map project, either as a numeric sequence (0,1,2...) or the same string as the title. (have you guessed w

Re: [mapserver-users] cascading wms and layer names encoding

I'm using qgis 1.9 from a while back (before the vector branch merge). It shows wms layer names in the maplegend (toc). As to arcgis server it now has an option to use layer names as they appear in the map project, effectively making names equal to the titles, even if illegal. But seriously, I can

Re: [mapserver-users] cascading wms and layer names encoding

Andreas, Very informative. Thanks. I've never read the spec in its entirety, just some parts as need arises. The concept of having strings for humans and strings for machines does not resonate well for me... but I'm not bashing the spec just airing some perplexity. Your answer really presented me

Re: [mapserver-users] cascading wms and layer names encoding

so i finally got to investigate this a bit more and found a solution... i encoded the layers list in the mapfile and it works. Why? I don't know... it seems to me it shouldn't work but it does... Here are my findings: 1) mapfile without encoding the layers list gives the error "layers contains unac