[Mapserver-users] Re: Help regarding getWMSFeatureInfoURL()

[Daniel Morissette]

Please do not send questions directly to individuals but use the 
mapserver-users list instead, this will increase your chances of getting 
a response (or reduce your chances of being ignored depending on how we 
see it).

The short answer to your question is that you can use PHP's file access 
functions (fopen(), file(), readfile(), etc.) to access a URL directly. 
See: http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Daniel


Udaya Sankar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to set up a cascading map server with
> the "Query" feature. Searching through the list, I
> found information that I can use
> getWMSFeatureInfoURL() to get a URL for a query from a
> Cascading Map Server (for WMS layers). I get the URL
> but I am unable to find any information on how I
> should execute it remotely *and* get back the
> attribute data which I then parse and display in my
> mapserver.. i.e
> 
>  When I query on the cascading mapserver, I get a URL.
> When I put that URL in the browser , I am getting the
> attribute data (displayed directly in the browser).
> 
>   I want to know how I can execute this URL remotely
> within a script to get the results which I then parse
> and display in my mapserver.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Udaya Sankar P.
> 
>