Does the 4.4.0 windows binary really support SWF?

[Frans Knibbe]

Allright, I understand now. Thanks for explaining.
I have just tried out your suggestion, using the proprietary CGI
parameters. I used the IMAGETYPE setting in the map file to force SWF
output, using the default settings for this format. When I requested a
map, the mapserver process started using all available CPU capacity for
creating a large SWF file in my directory for temporary files. I stopped
the process when this file had grown to 1.6 Gigabytes. All works well
when I change IMAGETYPE to GIF or PNG for example.

So now I’m back at my original question: Am I doing something wrong or
is there something wrong with the binaries?


Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

>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:
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>>
>>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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