[OpenLayers-Users] SLD Post within OpenLayers

[bradleyspencer]

Christopher,

OK. How do I check the length of the WMS GetMap request in OL? If it is over
the limit, what are my options?

Cheers,

Brad Spencer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com]
Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 9:46 AM
To: bradleyspencer
Cc: Luis F Silva; users at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] SLD Post within OpenLayers

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:12:29AM +1000, bradleyspencer wrote:
> Luis,
>
> I do not understand the issue here?
>
> I have been using remote SLDs to render layers within OL a lot (sld:
> 'fileName', in params) and can change the remote SLD file at any time with
a
> yourLayer.mergeNewParams({'sld':newSldFile});
>
> Is this a problem I could also have depending on the length of the WMS
> request?

Yes. IE won't request things longer than ~2k. FF is longer, but has
limits as well. Servers also have limits.

Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta