WMS client request method

[J. Parapar]

OK, thanks Assefa.

Jorge

2005/11/10, Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at dmsolutions.ca>:
> Hi There,
>
>   There is actually no support of wms client post request in mapserver.
>
> Later,
>
> J. Parapar wrote:
> > Frank,
> >
> > Thanks for the answer.  My problem is with the layers in the client
> > mapfile. We have several wms layers but i do not know how to indicate
> > to MapServer to make POST requests to the WMS server (instead of GET
> > requests). I have found the wfs_request_method parameter but I did not
> > find a "wms_request_method".
> >
> > I have made some tests and, as WMS Server, MapServer do supports
> > URL-encoded POST request.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Jorge
> >
> > 2005/11/10, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> >
> >>On 11/10/05, J. Parapar <listario at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi all
> >>>
> >>>Is it possible to set the WMS client request method to POST?  We have
> >>>a layer with a long SLD_BODY parameter and the web server says that
> >>>the request is too long.
> >>
> >>Jorge,
> >>
> >>I think POST WMS (and other cgi style requests) have been
> >>supported by MapServer for a long time.  I will note that it was
> >>only in March 2004 that the code was modified to support
> >>posts without CONTENT_LENGTH, but if you are doing this
> >>from a browser that should not be an issue.
> >>
> >>This is really one of the cases where I would encourage you to
> >>"just try it" before asking.  If if doesn't work then you can point
> >>out your problem on the list.
> >>
> >>When I was at PCI I used to get questions all the time about
> >>whether the software supported a particular format.  My answer
> >>was, try "File->Open" on it, did that work?
> >>
> >>Best regards,
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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