[mapserver-users] getCapabilities problems

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) bartvde at osgis.nl
Tue May 13 09:19:23 EDT 2008


That's logical, since OGC did not define the mime-type as text/xml, but 
as application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml instead, so browsers have no clue what to 
do with it, so present the download dialog. You can probably configure 
your browser to display it as XML though.

Best regards,
Bart

Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
>> my getCapabilities request seems to have a problem... But I have no 
>> idea why. I've reduced the whole thing on a couple of lines (see 
>> below), but still it doesn't work. Can anyone give me a hint why that 
>> would be?
>
> so, it seems to be correct; it just doesn't display the XML file in my 
> browser(s) (Safari, Firefox)...
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