I pursued the idea of the request being malformed, and implemented the small Python cgi script located at <a href="http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html">http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html</a> to mask mapfile locations. This eliminated the need to specify the mapfile in the request URL, and the the GetCapabilities request changed from this:<br>
<br>"<a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/mapfiles/precip/precip.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&" target="_blank">http://10.10.10.143/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/mapfiles/precip/precip.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&</a>"<br>
to this:<br>"<a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/mapfiles/precip/precip.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&" target="_blank">http://10.10.10.143/cgi-bin/precip.cgi?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&</a>"<br>
<br>The MapServer layers are now visible by World Wind. To me this indicates that World Wind is improperly parsing the WMS URL's that are entered.<br><br>Anyhow, in case anyone else decides to play around with the new World Wind java apps, that's how you can view your MapServer projects.<br>
<br>Roger<br>--<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Roger André <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randre@gmail.com">randre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anyone had any luck making this sort of connection? I have a WMS service that I can connect to in uDig, but which resists every attempt I make in World Wind. I'm beginning to wonder if World Wind sends weird requests to WMS servers.<br>
<br>This WMS URL works in uDig, "<a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/mapfiles/precip/precip.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&" target="_blank">http://10.10.10.143/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/mapfiles/precip/precip.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&</a>". It generates requests that look like this in my apache2 logs:<br>
<br>10.10.10.143 - - [05/Nov/2009:09:48:54 -0800] "GET /cgi-bin/mapserv?SERVICE=WMS&LAYERS=imagery,precip&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml&FORMAT=image/png&HEIGHT=557&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&MAP=/var/www/mapfiles/precip/precip.map&REQUEST=GetMap&BBOX=-162.95165202579437,-90.0,162.95165202579437,90.0&WIDTH=1010&STYLES=,&SRS=EPSG:4326&VERSION=1.1.1 HTTP/1.1" 200 296814 "-" "uDig 1.1.1 (<a href="http://udig.refractions.net" target="_blank">http://udig.refractions.net</a>) Java/1.6.0_02"<br>
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<br>However, when I put the same URL into the, "Enter wms server URL" window of the <a href="http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/demos/WMSLayerManager.jnlp" target="_blank">WMSLayerManager.jnlp</a> World Wind application, I get a weird looking request in the log that looks like this:<br>
<br>10.10.10.143 - - [05/Nov/2009:09:51:37 -0800] "GET /cgi-bin/mapserv?EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS& HTTP/1.1" 200 539 "-" "Java/1.6.0_07"<br>
<br>It's like ALL of the map-specific info has been stripped.<br><br>Any ideas how to make this work?<br><font color="#888888"><br>Roger<br>
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