WMS client and misbehaving servers

[Steve Lime]

I would think it would be possible. Perhaps this could be triggered with metadata (e.g. WMS_SKIP_ON_FAILURE). Dan
would know best though.

Steve

>>> On 1/24/2008 at 9:27 AM, in message
<1ebb87870801240727q1e30c8b5kab0ffb069a2fe101 at mail.gmail.com>, Bart van den
Eijnden <bartvde at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am running into a problem where an ArcIMS server does not behave
> correctly, even though we ask for exceptions inimage, it returns an empty
> response with content-type text/plain.
> 
> Because of this, Mapserver will bail out and say:
> 
> msDrawMap(): WMS connection error. Failed to draw WMS layer named '0'. This
> most likely happened because the remote WMS server returned an invalid
> image, and XML exception or another unexpected result in response to the
> GetMap request. Also check and make sure that the layer's connection URL is
> valid. <br>
> msDrawRaster(): Image handling error. Unrecognized or unsupported image
> format <br>
> drawEPP(): Image handling error. EPPL7 support is not available. <br>
> 
> What I would want is for Mapserver WMS client to just ignore this layer,
> rather than bailing out completely. Is that possible somehow?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart