[Mapserver-users] problem with GetCapabilities

[Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Debbie Pagurek [mailto:pagurekd at agr.gc.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:47 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] problem with GetCapabilities
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> am experiencing something weird when I request a 
> GetCapabilities from my wms_server apps.
> 
> I am prompted to download a file.  It says 
> file name = mapserv.map (where's it getting that name????)
> file type=MAP_AUTO_FILE
> from: my server name
> 
> if I open this file up in wordpad it is fine.  
> 
> I am using Internet Explorer 6.
> 
> Is this a browser problem or a file associations problem or what?
> 

As of WMS 1.1.0, the content type for a GetCapabilities response is
application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml for a GetCapabilities response.  So unless your
web browser knows how to handle this content type (i.e. file associations)
you'll be prompted to download or open.

Alot of people ask 'why -- it's just an XML document?'.  The reasoning
behind this is so that, seeing that everyone and their dog is writing
dialects of XML in their services, they could be easily recognizable by the
content type and be pushed off to specific applications through file
associations.

This way, with WMS as an example, I could configure GetCapabilities
responses to open up in Notepad, and GetFeatureInfo
(application/vnd.ogc.gml) with XML Spy or something.

> Also, I have Mapserver 3.6.3 on my system.  Does this support 
> WMS 1.1.0 or just 1.0.0?
> 
> D. Pagurek
> 
> 
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