CGI base URL behaviour

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Tom,

I agree with you that a ServiceException should be raised according to the
spec.

I don't think the OGC CITE tests have a testcase for this though.

I would have excepted the OGC specs to have an exception code defined for
this type of exception (something like InvalidRequest) but this is not the
case.

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi,
>
> When publishing my URL for OGC:WMS, OGC:WFS and OGC:WCS, i.e. mapserv
> CGI, I provide the following information:
>
> http://somehost/someurl
>
> and that's it.  If I invoke the exact URL as per above, I get:
>
> "No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty."
>
> ...which we all know what this is and what it means.
>
> In an OGC scenario, I believe that an OGC Service Exception should be
> returned, as the URL above is missing keywords for a given OWS request.
> Is this anywhere in the OGC CITE assertions?
>
> In a non-OGC scenario (pure MapServer CGI), what is returned has become
> pretty defacto (though I would argue for XML-based MapServer error
> reporting, but that's another story).
>
> I'm interested in what comments others have.
>
> Cheers
>
> ..Tom
>
>