[mapserver-dev] Possible bug found

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

Wow, that's a new one on me. Perhaps a ticket to either document it or remove it could be created.

Steve
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From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dan Little [danlittle at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:03 AM
To: MapServer Dev Mailing List
Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Possible bug found

If your map name is "selection" and you request "selection," MapServer believes you are requesting the entire map.  This is an "undocumented feature."


----- Original Message ----
> From: Guillaume Sueur <no-reply at neogeo-online.net>
> To: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 5:08:34 AM
> Subject: [mapserver-dev] Possible bug found
>
> Hi,
>
> I've faced a strange situation where all layers of a map (turned off by
> default) were showing when requesting a specific layer in WMS.
> layers are :
>     selection
>     departement
>     region
>     selection_label
>
> when asking for selection layer, all others layer were showing. renaming
> selection to something else and asking still for selection layer had the
> same result, a full map.
> The only clue I've found is that my map is named selection.Changing it
> to whatever else solves the problem.
> Is this conflict between map name and layer name a normal behaviour ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Guillaume
>
>
>
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