[Mapserver-users] WMS server issues

[Ed McNierney]

Doug -

I do think it's necessary to notify people if you find a bug, otherwise
it's unlikely to be fixed!  I'm frankly quite surprised that commas are
permitted in layer names in the spec, so it's very easy to overlook that
detail - I haven't heard of anyone else serving layer names with commas,
so it's the kind of bug that's easy to miss.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Cates [mailto:doug at moximedia.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 1:06 PM
To: Ed McNierney; Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] WMS server issues

Ed,

Agreed. I contacted the server host (National Atlas of Canada), and they
have agreed to change the layer names to remove the commas.

I don't think that it is necessary to notify people that layer names
should be encoded if necessary, because that is part of the WMS
specification. If a server purports to be OGC-compliant, it should
handle encoded layer names properly. 

Cheers,
Doug