[Mapserver-users] shorter URLs??

[Ed McNierney]

Gerry -

If you can, often the easiest thing to do is put a "wrapper" in front of
the MapServer CGI.  So if, for example, the only thing that REALLY
changes about a particular map is the latitude and longitude of the
centerpoint (I'm probably oversimplifying), you could put create map.php
and say:

http://mesonet.tamu.edu/map.php?la=42.991&lo=-108.223

or something like that.  If you have a longer set of parameters, you
could just pack them into a single querystring parameter with
delimiters.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Creager N5JXS [mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 5:32 PM
To: mapserver
Subject: [Mapserver-users] shorter URLs??

Is there a clean way (besides the tinyURL site) to define defaults 
within a mapserver "operation"?  In other words, the URL for the Current

weather at http://mesonet.tamu.edu is scaring folks.  Is there a way to 
define some defaults so the URL is shorter and not so scarey?  I recall 
seeing something about this, but my (admittedly less than exhaustive) 
search of the archives didn't show it up.

Thanks
Gerry
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