[OpenLayers-Users] WFS layers loaded are not visible [Solved]

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:46:28PM +0100, Alessio Di Lorenzo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the solution was very simple:
> 
> - the proxy.cgi was correct

No: proxy.cgi uses hostnames, not URLs. You needed to remove the http://   

> - the javascript code was also correct but I had to change the line
> 
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost="/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi/?url=";
> 
> in
> 
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost='' ";

This means that you didn't actually need a proxyhost at all, because
your Javascript is served from the same domain as your XML data.  

> By now I'm working to add a search function that looks into the wfs 
> layer attibutes and zoom to the search results on the map... I think I 
> will be back very soon with new issues  :)

extractAttributes: true is your friend.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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