Hello<br>I think I'm stuck on a similar problem and maybe I can give further information.<br>I'm basically doing the same thing, testing the WFS service with Mapinfo and while a GetFeature issued from a browser works fine, the same thing done from Mapinfo doesn't work. (WMS works fine)
<br><br>After poking around with various tools, I start to believe this might be a POST vs. GET issue. <br>A browser works with GET requests and appends parameters to the URL, including the vital map path. This works fine.
<br>However MapServer in GetCapabilities advertises the POST services too, and some clients will indeed send their requests as POST of XML data. Mapinfo does it for sure. <br>Now: no matter what workaround I use to bring the map into the request, this will still appear as an URL parameter, while the rest of the request is posted as XML.
<br>My feeling is that mapserv.exe gets confused about this and thinks that this is really a GET request and starts complaining in various ways about lack of parameters.<br><br>If that's the real issue, then I can think of some workarounds. The first being how to reinject the map into the request without using a URL parameter. Any idea?
<br><br>Hope I haven't been too confusing<br>TIA<br>F.Antognini<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Léveillé, James</b> <<a href="mailto:James.Leveille@mtq.gouv.qc.ca">James.Leveille@mtq.gouv.qc.ca
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">Hi
all,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">I'm trying to test
MapServer (v 4.8.3), the WFS service, with MapInfo (v 8.0) and
keep having this error message:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>"The WFS Server returned data which was neither in the requested
format nor a recognized WFS service exception : POST body is
short.</strong></font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>In response to a DescribeFeatureType request, the WFS Server
returned an invalid feature type."</strong></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">The
GetCapabilities looks fine, and the GetFeature works fine with IE
...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">Here is my
(simple) MapFile.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">THANKS A LOT
!!!</font></span></div><div><snip> </div><br><font size="1"><font face="Courier New">...................</font></font><br><div> </div><div> </snip></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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