[gdal-dev] WMS Driver defaulting to version 1.1.1

[Michael Smith]

Completely concur with Jeff. Everyone avoids 1.3.0 if they can help it.
1.1.1 is the de-facto standard version.

Mike

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Michael Smith

US Army Corps
Remote Sensing GIS/Center
michael.smith at usace.army.mil




-----Original Message-----
From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jeff
McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 9:05 AM
To: <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] WMS Driver defaulting to version 1.1.1

>Hi Tim,
>
>I can tell you just by use alone, the 1.1.1 standard is most prevalent.
>  In the MapServer world, it is 1.1.1 that dominates.  I also find,
>having been at this a long time now, that the 1.1.1 specification is
>most likely to be supported, if WMS is supported at all, by other
>mapping engines.
>
>So I support the 1.1.1 default in the WMS mini-driver.
>
>Others of course may disagree with me :)
>
>-jeff
>
>
>
>On 2016-03-02 9:58 AM, Timothy Astle wrote:
>> Does anyone know why the WMS Driver defaults to version 1.1.1 instead of
>> 1.3.0 by default?  Does anyone have any objections with this changing to
>> 1.3.0?  It seems like 1.3.0 would fall more into line with the
>> specifications content negotiation.
>>
>> 
>>https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/wms/wmsdriver.cpp#L96
>> http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html
>> "WMS version. (optional, defaults to 1.1.1)"
>>
>
>
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>Jeff McKenna
>MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
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