[Mapserver-users] How to use mapserver to cascade arcims wms services

[Larry Nolan]

I have a group of geological surveys which have arcims web mapping servers with tons of geological information. I would like to use mapserver to act as a one stop connection to each of those servers in a client. I have mapserver 4.0 working fine serving ogc wms map services. Does anyone have the syntax to connect to an esri arcims service which has the wms connector turned on. 

I get a a general service exception when I try to connect to this layer.

 LAYER
  NAME "NAD27LandBase"
  TYPE RASTER
  STATUS ON
  CONNECTION "http://gis.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?servicename=NAD27_Basemap"
  CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
  METADATA
     "wms_name"            "Base Map"
     "wms_server_version"  "1.1.0"
     "wms_formatlist"      "image/gif,image/png,image/jpeg,image/wbmp"
     "wms_format"          "image/gif,image/png"
  END
  PROJECTION
    "proj=tmerc"
    "lat_0=0.0"
    "lon_0=-59.5"
    "k=0.998"
    "x_0=0.0"
    "y_0=1000000.0"
    "ellps=clrk66"
    "units=m"
    "no_defs"
  END
 END



thanks
Larry Nolan