[Mapserver-users] WFS client howto

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I keep on making errors in e-mails this evening, and this one is against 
the OGC spec so I have to correct myself.

The REQUEST parameter is required, but the BBOX parameter is optional. So 
you do not need to add the BBOX parameter when typing the URL in a 
browser, but you may use it to limit the data to be retrieved.

Best regards,
Bart

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:19:38 +0200, Bart van den Eijnden 
<bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi Gregor,
>
> I read your second incoming e-mail too fast ...
>
> To answer your last question more precisely.
>
> The CONNECTION in the MAP file does not need to have a 
> request=GetFeature and a BBOX as Mapserver WFS client will add that 
> dynamically.
>
> But if you perform the request in a browser yourself, you need to add 
> those parameters.
>
> So it is not an error in the docs.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:08:01 +0200, Bart van den Eijnden 
> <bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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