Does the 4.4.0 windows binary really support SWF?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Frans,

all the support for the other formats besides GD/GDAL (like flash, PDF) is
still in the binary, only it is not accessible through the WMS interface.
These formats are not exported to the WMS capabilities and hence not
available for use with the WMS interface. This is not at all specific to
the Windows binary.

You could try using Mapserver's native interface (mode=map).

Best regards,
Bart

> Thank you for the pointer. However, I am not sure I entirely understand.
> Does MapServer only support image (GDAL) output at the moment, that is,
> PDF and SWF are not supported? Is it only the precompiled windows binary
> that does not support these formats or is it in general not possible to
> enable support for non-image output?
>
>
> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
>
>> Bug http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=455 describes
>> this issue. Only GDAL/GD formats are supported for wms in 4.4. This
>> will be upgadred to other formats for 4.6 release.
>>
>> Frans Knibbe wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have downloaded and installed the binary Windows distribution,
>>> version
>>> 4.4.0. In the description on the website, it says the binaries are
>>> build
>>> with SWF support. When I do a request for capabilities, SWF is
>>> mentioned
>>> in a comment in the output XML file, but does not show up as a
>>> supported
>>> GetMap output format. Indeed, when I request a map in SWF format,
>>> the following error is returned:
>>> msWMSLoadGetMapParams(): Image handling error. Unsupported output
>>> format
>>> (application/x-shockwave-flash).
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong or is the text accompanying the binaries
>>> wrong?
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Frans
>>>
>>
>>
>