[mapserver-users] ASP as template file

[Ed McNierney]

Christian -

What you're doing wrong is trying to use ASP like this - it simply won't work.  Your client browser makes an HTTP request to the MapServer CGI program, which processes the MAP file, the TEMPLATE file, and the CGI parameters to generate an output stream that's sent to the client in response to that HTTP request.  Alternatively, your client browser could make an HTTP request to the ASP parser program, which processes an ASP file and generates an output stream that's sent to the client in response to that HTTP request.  But a given HTTP request can't do both.

Depending on your circumstances, you might be better off using fewer of the MapServer template features and replacing them with ASP functionality instead.  I wrote a wordy note to the list a little while ago about using ASP with MapServer - you can find it in the archives at:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/wilma/mapserver-users/0110/msg00296.html

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Runge [mailto:crg at carlbro.dk]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:26 AM
To: 'mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu'
Subject: [mapserver-users] ASP as template file


Hello everyone.

I'm working with a map where I need to do some queries. I would like the
result of those queries to be handles by an active server page insted of a
simple html file. The following worked fine in version 3.4:

QUERY
	TEMPLATE 'processquery.asp'
END

Now I'm trying to do the same in version 3.5 and I believe this should be
correct syntax:

LAYER
....(omitted)...
CLASS
    SIZE 1
    TEMPLATE 'processquery.asp'
END #Class
END #Layer

For some reason the asp is not parsed by the asp parser and the entire
content is sent to the client browser (which ignores it of course). What do
I do wrong?

Thanks in advance
Christian Runge

P.S. I use the following system when running it:
Windows 2000 server
Internet Information Server
Mapserver 3.5
Internet Explorer 5.5 as test client