[Mapserver-users] WFS client howto

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Gregor,

this is because Mapserver WFS client uses by default POST now, and the WFS 
client HowTo is using HTTP GET in its examples (the docs should be updated 
to include both options). So your Apache logfile only has the basic URL in 
it to which a GetFeature XML request is posted.

But you have probably run into something like the following:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=597

Set your wfs_request_method metadata to GET then you can see in the Apache 
log exactly the full request which gets sent. Or just add 
request=GetFeature&BBOX=XMIN,YMIN,XMAX,YMAX to the URL you tried in a 
browser (fill in the BBOX values though) and see if it works.

Best regards,
Bart

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:41:03 -0700 (PDT), Gregor Mosheh 
<stigmata at blackangel.net> wrote:

>
> Also, I noticed that in the WFS Client Howto,
> they give a connection string of:
>
> http://my.wfs.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mywfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=mypoints
>
> But there's a mailing list entry that agrees with my experience, which 
> was
> that to get any response at all you need to specify a REQUEST variable as
> well, e.g.:
>
> http://my.wfs.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mywfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=mypoints&REQUEST=GetFeature
>
>
> Is this an error in the documentation, or am I missing something?
>
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