[mapserver-dev] WMS GetCapabilities response truncated to 4096 bytes on windows 2008 Server

[Jeff McKenna]

(commented in ticket earlier)   +1

-jeff



On 12-10-21 3:35 PM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The issue below still exists in MapServer 6.x versions (on specific
> Windows versions), so I'm about to include this change
> <https://github.com/szekerest/mapserver/commit/b578571824b58612fc95257d356ab1d0838129ad>
> in 6.2.
> Issue has also been added in
> github: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4505
> 
> Any objections to this change?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 
> 
> 2012/1/19 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com <mailto:szekerest at gmail.com>>
> 
>     Hi Devs,
> 
>     We have experienced strange behaviour of the WMS GetCapabilities
>     response of MapServer CGI on Windows 2008 and Windows 7 which is
>     truncated to 4k in size. The same thing happens when invoking
>     mapserv from the command line and the output is redirected to a file.
> 
>     After a bit of investigation, I came to the conclusion that the
>     process termination doesn't necessarily flush the file buffers
>     (incl. stdout and stderr) on Win 2008 and Win 7. This is primarily
>     an OS behaviour which works correctly on Win2003/XP, but it should
>     probably be fixed in MapServer by calling fflush(NULL) at the right
>     place. It could probably be done in the mapserv application or we
>     could also do such things in msCleanup as well. What would be the
>     most reasonable place to invoke fflush or do you have a more
>     reasonable approach?
> 
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     Tamas
> 
> 
>