[OpenLayers-Users] GetFeatureInfo requests never get answers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:04:34PM +0000, Marc Desharnais wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I confirm that my geoserver is working fine. I exchanged some emails on 
> the geoserver mailing list and they suggested me to try the preview maps 
> given by geoserver. They now integer the getfeatureinfo functionality in 
> the default previews.
> 
> So I tried there and everything worked fine.
> 
> but, now, if I copy the html code entirely without any modification into 
> my webpage, I won't work. The map displays fine and everything. But it 
> hangs on the loading message and never get response. I used Firebug to 
> track the bug and I remarked that the request is never noticed in 
> firebug when I click on a point. The loadURL function is called but not 
> the setHTML. It makes me think that maybe it's a permission problem. 
> Since it semms to work from geoserver itself but not from apache (which 
> my web page is on).

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#WhydoIneedaProxyHost

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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