[Mapserver-dev] WFS interoperability issues

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Rob,

I am also very interested in this, but I think the functionality is still 
under (heavy) development by DM Solutions.

I am using a different binary version and the POST request works perfectly.

You can download a CVS binary from 2 February 2004 at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bartvde/mapserv_41.exe

With respect to the MAP file parameter, just use it in the URL to which 
you post. E.g. in my test I post to: 
http://myserver/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/general/map/gemeentes.map

Hope this answers at least some of your questions.

Best regards,
Bart

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:21:09 +1100, Rob Atkinson <rob at socialchange.net.au> 
wrote:

>
> Hi folk,
>
> have been doing some interoperability testing on WFS functionality in 
> v4.01 and 4.1
>
> at this stage I have been using precompiled binaries, so these comments 
> do refer to 4.1-dev Windoze.
>
> 4.1 is a big improvement over 4.0 - so much so I'm happy to help get the 
> last few glitches ironed out and start using the beast.
>
> Here are the key issues:
>
> 1) The capabilities response offers both POST and GET - but only GET 
> appears to work.  This may be due to the fact I need to specify the 
> mapfile and there is no obvious way of doing that in the POST request. I 
> have searched documentation, bug lists and archives and not been able to 
> find how you intend to address this.
>
> 2) POST requests are returning non-XML responses - PNG images!
>
> 3) Features have no formal identifier (in GML 2 the "fid" atttribute) - 
> I see this is a reported bug already - but would like to stress its 
> importance. It is also important that "fids" can be made persistent - 
> they are an object identifier after all. I would suggest that the map 
> file syntax be extended to allow the nomination of a field to be mapped 
> to this.
>
> Would appreciate any info on these matters and whether I need to fix - 
> would prefer to perform testing if someone else can do it.
>
> Regards
> Rob Atkinson
>
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