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

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Daniel,

good idea I think.

I have created an enhancement bug about this:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=638

Best regards,
Bart

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:08:29 -0400, Daniel Morissette 
<dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:

> 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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