[Mapserver-users] request=GetMap& error in MapServer v4.1

[Daniel Morissette]

Ed McNierney wrote:
> 
> I'm a little puzzled - your GetMap request is missing several required
> parameters (SRS, BBox, Width, Height, Layers, etc.).  I'm surprised it
> worked at all in 4.0.2.  The error message is (a little obscurely)
> complaining because you have no LAYERS at all.
> 

Before V4.1, MapServer used to forgive all those missing parameters in 
GetMap and use default values from the mapfile.

In 4.1 the checking has been made more strict on some parameters in 
order to pass some of the tests in the OGC test suite, and the LAYERS 
parameter is one of those parameters that we check for.  You probably 
get the error on LAYERS because it's the first parameter that is checked 
for, and once it finds one error it stops and doesn't report other 
missing parameters.

Daniel
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