[gdal-dev] ogrinfo with remote KML-urls

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>> Is this a known issue that ogrinfo does not work with remote URLs?
>> Stephan,
>>
>> I am not aware of any support in OGR for working on remote urls.  There is
>> an http driver in GDAL that sort of supports this for rasters, but I don't
>> think the same thing exists in OGR.
> 
> Frank,
> 
> GeoJSON driver can read GeoJSON stream from remote resource.
> Obviously, Stephan's URL does not point to GeoJSON file,
> but KML, thus it fails.
> AFAIK, the KML driver can't read from URL.

Mateusz,

Ah, I did not realize such magic existed in the geojson driver.  How does
it decide whether it ought to initate an expensive http request?   It
*seems* like a bad idea to embed such behavior in a particular driver.

Best regards,
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