[Mapserver-users] WMS using libCurl fails because of a wrong HTTP User Agent

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

Hi,

It should not make a difference what the user agent is.  OGC WMS is
independent of what client one uses.

If the particular WMS you are dealing with is disallowing requests from
certain user agents, that is specific to the way it may have been
configured.  It is outside the scope of the specification.

Do you have the server URL of the WMS you're trying to access?

Thanks

..Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Morissette [mailto:morissette at dmsolutions.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:08 PM
> To: Norbert Schauerte-Lueke
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] WMS using libCurl fails because of a
> wrong HTTP User Agent
> 
> 
> Norbert Schauerte-Lueke wrote:
> > 
> > still there is a problem with the UMN wms-client and a 
> propritary WMS 
> > Server. The diagnostic of the problem show that the WMS Client will 
> > only send an image when the HTTP User Agent will be MSIE or 
> > Mozilla. libCurl sets an other HTTP User Agent (somethink like CURL 
> > Version ...). Is there a possibility to change this HTTP 
> User Agent e.g. 
> > via an environment variable.
> > 
> > If anybody can give a hint, I will be very thankfull
> > 
> 
> I find it really odd that a WMS server would cehck the user agents 
> before responding to client requests, but anyway, there is 
> apparently a 
> way to control the user agent value with Libcurl.  If you can 
> build from 
> source, then you could add the following line to maphttp.c 
> around line 
> 339, just after the line that sets CURLOPT_URL:
> 
>    curl_easy_setopt(http_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "whatever 
> you want");
> 
> Daniel
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