RFC 16: MapScript WxS Services

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I have a first version of the proposal for WxS MapScript Services available
at:
   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-16-mapscript-wxs-services

This isn't a call for votes, just for discussion.  The RFC covers:

  o Slight extensions to OWSRequest so it can be used to parse arguments
    from cgi environment arguments (aka call loadParams()).

  o Exposing OWSDispatch() to process OWS requests (WMS, WFS, WCS, etc) on
    a map.

  o Exposing a bunch a of "msIO" functions so scripts can capture stdout
    output from OWSDispatch or anything else that writes through msIO.

The intention is that my work would cover their use in all the SWIG generated
mapscript languages.  Additional work would be required to implement in PHP
but presumably roughly matching what we have.  I have already roughly
implemented the proposal and tested in Python and Perl with good success.

Best regards,
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