[MapServer-dev] Proposal of a new MS_ONLINERESOURCE variable

[Jeff McKenna]

+1 jeff

(RFC now visible at https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-141.html )



-jeff




On 2026-02-07 5:07 a.m., Rahkonen Jukka via MapServer-dev wrote:
> +1
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> ________________________________________
> Lähettäjä: MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> käyttäjän Seth G via MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org> puolesta
> Lähetetty: Perjantai 6. helmikuuta 2026 19.53
> Vastaanottaja: MapServer Devs <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Aihe: [MapServer-dev] Proposal of a new MS_ONLINERESOURCE variable
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> One of the pain-points of MapServer deployments are setting the "ows_getcapabilities" for each Mapfile for each
> environment.
> 
> I wrote an RFC at https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/1059 that allows you to set this once for all Mapfiles in a deployment in the CONFIG file.
> 
> After going through the code, it is actually a minimal change to msBuildOnlineResource that could have been a simple pull-request. However I had enough notes to add to the RFC, and thought it would be good to get feedback on the MS_ONLINERESOURCE name and approach.
> 
> I'll start with my +1.
> 
> Seth
>