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

[Paul Spencer]

Oh sure, and next you'll want to change the TEMPLATE attribute that 
makes a layer queryable into something that is meaningful too :>

My limited understanding of the problem is that most of these attributes 
that make no sense have come from the mapserv CGI side of things where 
they do make sense, and it is only the other interfaces that they do not 
make sense for ...

Not that I have a point to make, I'm just rambling on ....


Cheers,

Paul


Jean-Henry Berevoescu wrote:

> Daniel Morissette 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.
> 
> 
> As noted in previous mails of this thread, there are indeed legitimate 
> uses of this feature and for comercial uses Copyrights, Watermarks and 
> Logos are in most cases I am familiar with absolutely necessary.
> 
>>
>> 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.)
> 
> 
> I was wondering if the DEFAULT notion is not actually misleading (I was 
> definitely interpreting it the wrong way when I first read about it). 
> Maybe leaving the DEFAULT as a deprecated value and adding one that 
> conveys the meaning through a significant name (e.g. ALWAYSON) will do a 
> better job in the future.
> 
> Jean
> 
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