<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The WMS spec does say it is required:<div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b>7.3.3.4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>map_request_copy</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><map request copy> is not a name/value pair like the other parameters. Instead, most of the GetMap request parameters that generated the original map are repeated. Two are omitted because GetFeatureInfo provides its own values: VERSION and REQUEST. The remainder of the GetMap request <b>shall </b>be embedded contiguously in the GetFeatureInfo request.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Best regards,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Bart</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 5, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Ivan Mincik wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Hi,<br>I would like to ask, why is the LAYERS parameter required in<br>GetFeatureInfo request.<br>Looking to WMS specification, it is not mentioned in this type of<br>request. Neither in Mapserver doc I can't find any relevant info.<br><br>Tested on Mapserver 5.6.6. Without LAYERS parameter I get:<br>msWMSLoadGetMapParams(): WMS server error. Invalid layer(s) given in the<br>LAYERS parameter.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>- -- <br>Ivan Mincik, Gista s.r.o.<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a><br><br>iEYEARECAAYFAk3CdIsACgkQVqso/9cUsCydZgCgzE3uoIfl3AknEvoVEEuxgHFU<br>1twAniaRmixQ200mbLDlcJe3367RWIgo<br>=Xy55<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>