[mapserver-users] Ping a WMS service.

[Daniel Morissette]

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On 2016-04-27 12:01 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
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> Not really MapServer specific, but possibly related, does anyone have an
> idea of how to best “ping” a WMS (and maybe also a WFS) to see if it’s
> active, only want to know that the service is active and able to take
> requests.
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> I’m thinking about building a Dashboard for our layers for checking
> their health.  I don’t want to use GetCapabilities if I can get away
> with it. We already have some similar tools for actually requesting the
> Image tiles, or other resources from MapServer WMSs.  Also, there may be
> some future additions for adding in Offsite WMS services being imported.
>   I want to start with our own services though.
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> The majority of our layers pass through MapServer, so maybe there is
> some trick for MapServer that would work.  Each of our layers has it’s
> own mapfile.  There is a consolidated WMS for all the layers as well, if
> there is a WMS specific way of doing this.
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> The intent is to run something that is really fast, or as fast as
> possible on a periodic basis.
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> Thoughts?
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> bobb
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> “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency
> something that should not be done at all.”
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