HostGIS+OpenLayers WMS requests to mapserver problems

[Gregor Mosheh]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>> Seems pretty normal to me. A styles param is optional, 
> A styles parameter is not optional according to the WMS 1.1 spec

I meant the value for it. Pardon my unclarity.


>> It's also very normal to require the width, height, bbox, and SRS, and 
>> format. If it was working before without them, defaulting to whatever 
>> was in the mapfile, then that was a lax enforcement of WMS standard and 
>> you should be glad it's been fixed. ;)

> I disagree with this statement, but I do agree that those parameters are
> required as part of the WMS spec, and if you're using MS 5.0, it seems
> likely that this is the change you are running into.

With which part do you disagree? That it's a good thing that those 
required params are required? Or that he should be glad for it?

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