[Mapserver-users] WFS client howto

[Gregor Mosheh]

Thanks for your help, Bart. It still doesn't work, but at least I now know
why.

> But you have probably run into something like the following:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=597

Yes, that's the same result I was getting with my manually-entered URLs.
So that "nothing there" response is the "junk" that makes the layer (and
thus the whole map) fail?



> Set your wfs_request_method metadata to GET then you can see in the Apache
> log exactly the full request which gets sent.

Yes, and that gave me the lead to figure out what was being sent and thus
what was wrong. Now my WFS client looks like this, and is at least sending
requests to the httpd. This paragraph is nothing at all like the one in
the howto, though. Any comments? (the CONNECTION is right. it's a
dedicated wms/wfs-only mapserver)

  CONNECTIONTYPE wfs
  CONNECTION "http://maps.hostgis.com:800/mapserv?"
  METADATA
    "wfs_service"           "WFS"
    "wfs_typename"          "streets"
    "wfs_srs"               "EPSG:4269"
    "wfs_name"              "streets"
    "wfs_title"             "streets"
    "wfs_version"           "1.0.0"
    "wfs_request_method"    "GET"
    "wfs_connectiontimeout" "60"
  END



I still have the problem that the connections are timing out. But I'll
start a new thread on this... Thanks a lot, Bart.