[Mapserver-dev] Re: [Mapserver-users] WMS Cllient for ArcView 3.X

[Paul Ramsey]

I believe Shane here has already reported a variant of this. In general, 
a simple fix is, before being stuffed into an XML message, all error 
text should be scanned for <, >, and & and the corresponding &entity; 
should be inserted.

Running
   grep "<br>" *.c
on the code turns up a very large quantity of error messages with 
embedded <br>'s in them, which will of course throw an XML parser for a 
loop if stuck literally into an XML error message.

Shall I ask Shane to do this fix, or would it be better if you did it as 
the OpenGIS experts? I do not want to accidentaly screw anything up.
The other question is: is it better to just entity'ize the stupid HTML 
tags, or should we try and strip them, or try and replace them with 
something "better" (like what, I dunno).

Paul

Daniel Morissette wrote:

>> 2. Report Mapfile errors as XML.  We should be able to check if 
>> "Request="
>> is a CGI parameter.  Or use some other non-mapfile mechanism to 
>> determine if
>> the protocol is OGC.
>>
> 
> I filed bug 456 to at least handle the case above properly.
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=456



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