[mapserver-users] Two questions about WMS and outputformats

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

paalkr wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks, looking forward to the patch!
> 
ticket is updated with a possible patch.

best regarads

> Regards,
> Pål Kristensen
> 
> 
> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There was a ticket opened for that years ago with a path to implement
>> it, but was never addressed:
>>   (http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/455)
>> It seems to be less controversial in functionality than the recent
>> "Hiding/Enabling/Ignoring Layers in OGC Web Services" thread, but
>> introduces another  new metadata and that by it self may be 
>> controversial.  I am willing to provide a patch for now following what 
>> is discussed in the bug and depending on how the OGC metadata 
>> organization evolves in the coming months, we would adapt that patch. 
>> Please add yourself in cc to this bug.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>>
>> paalkr wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Is there a way to prevent the default outputformats to be exposed in the
>>> capabilities document? I have a map service where I have used AGG
>>> specific
>>> rendering capabilities, and requesting e.g a GIF image then makes a bad
>>> looking map and does not make sense. I would like the opportunity to only
>>> expose explicit defined formats specified with one or more OUTPUTFORMAT
>>> blocks.
>>>
>>> I don't want to disable the different drivers though, only control the
>>> outputformat list in the GetCapabilities response. If the only way to
>>> achieve this is to patch the source code, I would be glade if any of the
>>> devs could point me in the right direction.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pål Kristensen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>> Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> By default, without having any OUTPUTFORMAT sections in the mapfile,
>>>>> Mapserver is advertising following imageformats in WMS GetCapabilities
>>>>> document:
>>>>>
>>>>>  <GetMap>
>>>>>       <Format>image/gif</Format>
>>>>>       <Format>image/png</Format>
>>>>>       <Format>image/png; mode=24bit</Format>
>>>>>       <Format>image/jpeg</Format>
>>>>>       <Format>image/vnd.wap.wbmp</Format>
>>>>>       <Format>image/tiff</Format>
>>>>>       <Format>image/svg+xml</Format> 
>>>>>
>>
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>>
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