[mapserver-users] OpenGIS CITE

[Daniel Morissette]

Brent Fraser wrote:
> 
>   How about an optional "WMS_Version " keyword for the metadata section of
> the WEB object in the map file?  If present, Mapserver would spit out a
> <WMT_MS_Capabilities version='1.1.1'> tag (or whatever version was given in
> the map file).  We could use it to get around client/server WMS version
> incompatibilies.  I realize you're working to implement v1.1.1 in Mapserver
> , but there could be other client applications coming out that support only
> v1.1.2, etc.
> 

Unfortunately properly supporting version 1.1.1 is not as simple as 
changing the version tag at the top of the capabilities to say 1.1.1. 
There is probably not much more to it (I don't remember the differences) 
and changing the version number may be enough to fool the ArcExplorer 
client but shouldn't be considered a good practice.

Actually, I'm a bit surprised that you were unable to connect since you 
wrote that both of your clients support WMS 1.0.0 (do they really?). 
MapServer does support V1.0.0 if the clients ask for that version... so 
if those clients did implement WMS version negociation properly then 
they would have picked version 1.0.0.  Note that very few clients 
implement WMS version negociation properly, I don't even think our 
MapLab package does... one more reason to not implement hacks in 
MapServer but instead work on fixing the clients to adhere to the spec.

Daniel
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