[OpenLayers-Users] Is there a way to dynamically get the feature id of a feature from a WMS layer?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

cgp wrote:
> I've been trying this for about a week now but I can't find anything. Maybe
> I'm missing something?
> 
> It seems that the "feature id" and the "fid" are different. I can get the
> "fid" dynamically (from getfeatureinfo on a WMS layer) but not the
> "Feature_id".

I think a little more info is needed.

Where is "Feature_id" defined?
What is the layer definition?
Is if common from mapserver? Show us the mapfile LAYER definition.
What have you tried so far?

-Steve W