[Mapserver-users] Re: open polygons makes mapserver crash

[pkishor_98]

--- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, "Eduardo Patto Kanegae" 
<eduardo at c...> wrote:
> 
> I figured out that when I have a bad polygon shapefile( maybe with some NOT-
closed shapes), MapServer crashes
>     and if the server is windows, an error message will appear.
> 
>     Is there a way of testing a shapefile or hide this error message on windows 
servers?


yeah. This is a problem. ms won't allow you to make a non-poly on a poly layer. And I 
don't know if there anyway around it. You could test the polys using an Arcview 
Avenue script that I posted on this message board a while back (I am not sure if I still 
have it... will search for it... but you should be able to find it in the email archives).

Would be nice if ms has a switch that allows it to generate non-fatal errors and 
continue without choking up.