[Qgis-user] Accessing QGIS's log of errors? Issues with a WMS provider with QGIS 1.7.4 on MacOS X

[Alexandre Leroux]

Hi list!

I'm getting an error message when trying to display a WMS layer from a 
specific provider with QGIS 1.7.4 on MacOS X. The GetCapabilities works 
fine but when adding a layer, I get a cryptic short error message with 
"PNG???" or "JPEG???".

My question: is there any way I can access QGIS verbose error logs?

I'd like to understand (and thus fix) what's wrong. I suspect it's our 
WMS server that is not behaving correctly, but it does work with several 
other software such as OpenLayers, ArcGIS, MapInfo, etc. So far, only 
QGIS on MacOS X fails (it appears to work fine on QGIS on Windows) to 
load WMS layers from this server (other WMS servers appear to work fine 
in the MacOS X version of QGIS).

For those curious to test, here's the WMS server:
http://wms.weatheroffice.gc.ca/geomet/?service=WMS&request=getCapabilities

It's on WeatherOffice, one of the most visited websites in Canada (don't 
we all like to know how to dress in the morning ;-) and I'd like to 
direct users of our WMS to QGIS in the official documentation, but I 
first need QGIS to work fine with our WMS server!

Thanks for any feedback -

Alex - Slashgeo.org
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Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., ing.
MSC Data Management Section /
Section de gestion des données du SMC
Canadian Meteorological Centre / Centre météorologique canadien
Environment Canada / Environnement Canada
alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca - (514) 421-5024