[GeoMoose-users] WFS identify is GeoMoose using MapServer

[Jim Klassen]

I would guess that it is non-compliant to send/ask for a SRS that isn't 
advertised in the GetCapabilities.  I think the bug is that MapServer is 
working at all.



Personally, I think type="wfs" should be strongly preferred and 
type="mapserver-wfs" is the hack.  It is a work around for 
`/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/file/system/path&` being ugly. "mapserver-wfs" 
really isn't designed to work across multiple mapserver sites either.  
IMO MapServer shouldn't be exposing (full) filesystem paths to the web 
request at all and MapServer 7/8 have been making steps to avoid this 
more.  If it were up to me, I'd remove the "mapserver-*" types 
entirely.  I'd expect MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN is already set on the server 
correctly, otherwise it wouldn't work at all.


I'm still partial to adding an Apache handler for ".map" so mapfiles are 
"run" from within the webroot like a CGI or PHP file would normally be 
run, but instead of Apache passing it to PHP or Perl/Python/whatever for 
handling, the mapfile gets passed to MapServer (via environment 
variables) to run.  A side benefit is Apache sees the path to the 
mapfile and normal Apache authentication/authorization can be applied 
within the standard <Directory> or <Location> stanzas.  I don't see any 
reason to want MapServer to implement yet another 
authentication/authorization system when Apache is already there. This 
works well at least from MapServer 5-7. I haven't tried it with 8 yet.  
The catch is that MapServer doesn't auto detect the server URL correctly 
when doing this so "ows_onlineresource" needs to be set to the URL (as 
seen by end users) to the mapfile.  (I have a patch for MapServer that 
lets the auto-detection still work by looking at the SCRIPT_URI 
environment variable.)

On 1/2/23 16:44, Brent Fraser wrote:
> Hmm,  I would say that GeoMoose should not include a MAP= in the 
> request if there is no <file> in the mapsource definition.
>
>
> *From*: "Dan Little" <theduckylittle at gmail.com>
> *Sent*: 1/2/23 3:40 PM
> *To*: bfraser at geoanalytic.com
> *Cc*: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>, GeoMoose Users 
> <geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject*: Re: [GeoMoose-users] WFS identify is GeoMoose using MapServer
>
> I suspect MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN needs set. Ala: 
> https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html
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