[mapserver-dev] Proposal for OWS Dispatch improvement

[Fabian Schindler]

All,

Thank you all for your input. I will make sure, the requirements 
regarding OGC service specs and their compliance tests are met. As far 
as I can see from #2531, this concerns mostly the WMS but I will check 
the other specs as well.

I guess the patch will be available upon the end of the next week.

Thanks,
Fabian

On 06/08/2011 03:51 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> +1 here too, as long as we make sure that the new code deals properly 
> with the incompatibilities between various OGC service specs and 
> versions. There is stuff like SERVICE being non-existent (or 
> optional?) in some older specs, vs newer versions of some specs 
> requiring an exception if SERVICE is not set... this exception is 
> sometimes required to pass OGC compliance tests.
>
> If I remember correctly, in order to pass OGC tests we added a 
> "mode=ows" option that can be used to enforce strict OGC service mode 
> and produce an exception if the request does not match any supported 
> service type, instead of falling back on the traditional CGI mode 
> which is the default behavior when mode=ows is not explicitly set.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 11-06-08 09:39 AM, Kralidis,Tom [Ontario] wrote:
>>
>> +1 on the improvement and no RFC needed.  I echo Assefa's comments.
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Yewondwossen 
>> Assefa
>> Sent: Wed 08-Jun-11 09:32
>> To: Fabian Schindler
>> Cc: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Proposal for OWS Dispatch improvement
>>
>> Hi Fabian,
>>
>> I agree with the assessment that It is a good improvement. Checking
>> quickly, I do not see any issues of doing what you propose if the
>> current quirks and functionality described in #2531 are kept.  I also
>> agree that there is no need for an RFC.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> On 07/06/2011 5:18 PM, Stephan Meißl wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 15:13 -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>> On 11-06-07 11:56 AM, Fabian Schindler wrote:
>>>>>      1. In msOWSDispatch, a preliminary parsing function 
>>>>> determines the service,
>>>>>         version and the request from the KVP or XML request.
>>>> Fabian,
>>>>
>>>> Your idea sounds good to me.  The only caution I will provide is I 
>>>> think
>>>> there were some special cases for some services treating the SERVICE
>>>> parameter as optional (perhaps WMS?) in some versions and you would 
>>>> need
>>>> to take care to replicate this.
>>>>
>>>> We have lots of time to shake out any quirks with regard to this in 
>>>> trunk
>>>> before 6.2 is released.  Assuming you get positive feedback from 
>>>> some of
>>>> Assefa, Daniel, Tom and Steve who I think cover much of the OGC 
>>>> service
>>>> responsibilities then I would suggest you go ahead and prepare the 
>>>> patch.
>>>> Stephan can commit the changes.  I don't think an RFC is needed though
>>>> perhaps the other guys will see a need for one.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>> Frank, all,
>>>
>>> you're right, e.g. in WMS 1.0.0 the SERVICE parameter is non-existent.
>>> Tom provided a good starting point [1] some time ago.
>>>
>>> I guess Fabian would be happy to write an RFC although he wouldn't
>>> object if he doesn't need to ;). To start with, maybe a more verbose
>>> ticket could be used? Anyway, lets see what others think.
>>>
>>> cu
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2531#comment:6
>>>
>>>
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