[Mapserver-dev] WMS and LAYERS= vs. STATUS Behaviour

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I think users of Mapserver should be discouraged to use STATUS DEFAULT in 
combination with the WMS interface. The best way to discourage them is to 
provide a warning in the capabilities XML in my opinion.

Best regards,
Bart

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:09:15 -0400, Daniel Morissette 
<dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:

> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>
>> The issue for WMS client interfaces is that the DEFAULT layers show up 
>> in the Capabilities file, and there is no indication that these layers 
>> are "special" in any way. The interface thinks you can turn them on or 
>> off, so it will give the user buttons to do so. Buttons that will not 
>> work. If the DEFAULT layers are considered "backdrop" information, not 
>> an alterable layer, maybe they should not be in the capabilities?
>>
>
> Yeah, I've thought of that before too, but I wasn't sure what was best 
> between showing them or not. If everybody agrees with hiding the DEFAULT 
> layers in capabilities then we could make the change in 4.3 (after 
> creating a bug about this).
>
> Daniel



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