[Qgis-user] Re: Qgis nightly-build has problems with WMS 1.30

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Barend Köbben <kobben at ...> writes:

> 
> For the record:
> 
> The OGC WMS 1.3.0 spec says that:
> VERSION=version is OPTIONAL
> SERVICE=WMS is MANDATORY
> REQUEST=GetCapabilities is MANDATORY
> 
> So the versions complaining about missing REQUEST parameter are actually
> correct (i.e. compliant).

Many (most?) WMS clients are adding SERVICE and REQUEST automatically to the
base URL because they are mandatory and QGIs should do the same. Version is
optional by standard but myself I think it would be good to let users to select
the version to use in explicit way with radio buttons or something. Without
version the server will advertise the highest version that it supports and there
can be troubles with the axis order if the version is 1.3.  For the WMS users
1.1.1 is just as good as 1.3.

-Jukka Rahkonen-