[mapserver-users] cascading WMS

Lars Lingner gislars+list at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 7 04:59:57 PDT 2014


On 07.08.2014 10:34, Jörg Thomsen wrote:
[...]
> No, as the wms-spec says you have to call a WMS with one ore more
> layer-names MapServer has to know the the layer-names (and it does not
> make a capabilities call). So you have to write down all names behind
> "wms_name".
> 


Just a FYI, as I was in a similar situation. If you are able to control
MapServer with CGI controls, you can use layers=all as parameter. See
http://mapserver.org/de/cgi/controls.html

But a WMS request doesn't allow it.


Lars





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