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

[Daniel Morissette]

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well, do we want to discourage them that badly?  There may be legitimate 
uses of status default as mentioned in a previous email (for a copyright 
notice or a watermark for instance), and in this case the warning could 
become a real pain.

There have been discussions before about adding something to prevent 
some layers from being listed/served via WMS.  Perhaps we could use this 
in combination with your warning idea??? (i.e. we produce the warning 
for status default, and if someone really knows what they're doing then 
they can hide their layers that have status default to avoid the warning.)

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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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