[Mapserver-users] WMS Cllient for ArcView 3.X

[Paul Ramsey]

This brings up an unrelated but important issue:
Mapserver when running in WMS mode should always report its errors in 
the proper OpenGIS XML format. I wonder why we got an error in 
text/html? Shane, are we always requesting our errors in XML, or are we 
just taking whatever the server provides us?

Paul

Brent Fraser wrote:

> Paul,
> 
>   You are right.  I already log all of my site's wms requests for debugging
> purposes and sure enough, an error was being generated by Mapserver, totally
> unrelated to the WMS server (or the Client).
> 
> The error was related to TILEIDEX and missing data raster data that GDAL was
> trying to find.  When crafting the ogc file I had guessed at the extents and
> was trying to map more data than I had. (Now I need to see why
> Mapserver/GDAL did not IGNORE_MISSING_DATA like it was supposed to.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Brent
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Ramsey" <pramsey at refractions.net>
> To: "Brent Fraser" <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> Cc: "mapserver-users" <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; "Shane Nelson"
> <snelson at refractions.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] WMS Cllient for ArcView 3.X
> 
> 
> 
>>Brent,
>>Shane will tell you where teh magic log file lives. The magic log file
>>contains the URL of the latest request. So when you get an error, you
>>can plug the URL from the magic log file into your favourite browser and
>>see what it returns.  It seems likely that Mapserver is returning an
>>error in HTML format, not a map, and that is throwing the client for a
> 
> loop.
> 
>>Paul
>>
>>Brent Fraser wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Paul,
>>>
>>>  The following is likely a Mapserver issue, but Mapserver 4.0 spits out
>>>
>>>GetMap>
>>>  <Format>image/png</Format>
>>>  <Format>image/jpeg</Format>
>>>  <Format>text/html</Format>
>>>  <Format>image/tiff</Format>
>>>
>>>when asked for REQUEST=GETCAPABILITIES
>>>
>>>The Refractions WMS Client generates an error of
>>>    Error Creating Image: Unknown filetype returned by server: text/html
>>>
>>>I'm not clear why Mapserver says it can supply a map in html format.
> 
> I'll
> 
>>>have to look into that.  In any case, I would expect the client to be
>>>tolerant of formats it can't use, especially since I stated in the
> 
> Client
> 
>>>.ogc file to use only jpeg:
>>>
>>> <image_format_list>
>>>  <image_format>image/jpeg</image_format>
>>> </image_format_list>
>>>
>>>Brent Fraser
>>>bfraser at geoanalytic.com
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Paul Ramsey" <pramsey at refractions.net>
>>>To: "mapserver-users" <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
>>>Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:26 PM
>>>Subject: [Mapserver-users] WMS Cllient for ArcView 3.X
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello, Mapserver'ers,
>>>>
>>>>Refractions is happy to announce the beta release of our WMS Client
>>>>software for ArcView 3.X.  We will be maintaining a free-to-download WMS
>>>>Client for ArcView 3.X and this is the initial release. We would be
>>>>happy to hear back from you with bug reports, strange servers, etc.
>>>>Please give it a try!
>>>>
>>>>The beta download page is at http://www.refractions.net/wms
>>>>
>>>>If the market appears to warrant it, we will be releasing a "Pro"
>>>>version, with support for some more fiddly advanced features, like
>>>>ArcIMS, printing, overlays, reprojection, etc.
>>>>
>>>>Paul
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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