[mapserver-dev] Possible bug found

[Dan Little]

If your map name is "selection" and you request "selection," MapServer believes you are requesting the entire map.  This is an "undocumented feature."  


----- Original Message ----
> From: Guillaume Sueur <no-reply at neogeo-online.net>
> To: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 5:08:34 AM
> Subject: [mapserver-dev] Possible bug found
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've faced a strange situation where all layers of a map (turned off by
> default) were showing when requesting a specific layer in WMS. 
> layers are :
>     selection
>     departement
>     region
>     selection_label
> 
> when asking for selection layer, all others layer were showing. renaming
> selection to something else and asking still for selection layer had the
> same result, a full map. 
> The only clue I've found is that my map is named selection.Changing it
> to whatever else solves the problem.
> Is this conflict between map name and layer name a normal behaviour ? 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> 
> 
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