[OpenLayers-Users] meta query re. documentation

[Ian Turton]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a high level query here, as to how to proceed with developing
> with OL. Let's say, I have my data in Pg, and am serving it as WMS via
> MapServer. I want to implement WMSGetFeatureInfo. I have the following
> two websites
>
> http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Control/WMSGetFeatureInfo-js.html
> and
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/getfeatureinfo-popup.html
>
> and the source code of WMSGetFeatureInfo.js
>
> Am I wrong or right in thinking that between the above two URLs and
> the Javascript file, I don't have enough information on how to
> implement this? Where and how am I supposed to figure out the various
> parameters and options for constructing the instance of
> WMSGetFeatureInfo and implement it correctly? For example, as reported
> in another thread, MapServer is reporting that I have an "Unsupported
> INFO_FORMAT value (text/html)". The Javascript code shows that
> "text/html" is hard coded as the default value for infoFormat, but I
> have no idea what the possible MIME type values are that are
> acceptable.

Look in the capabilities response for the server you are making the
request to - it will provide your with all the possible settings for
that server.

Ian
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