outputformat and default image format output

[Sandeep Bashyal]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:45:07 -0500, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] <Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In my mapfile, I've defined:
>
>  OUTPUTFORMAT
>   NAME GEOTIFF_RGB
>   DRIVER "GDAL/GTiff"
>   MIMETYPE "image/tiff"
>   IMAGEMODE RGB
>   EXTENSION "tif"
>  END
>
> ...for some raster data, which is fine.  However, it seems to have taken
> over my app/service as the default format.  i.e. if I request:
>
> http://host/url?mode=legend&layers=roadlayer
>
> ..this gives me back a prompt to download a TIFF image.
>
> If I comment out the OUTPUTFORMAT object, I get back a GIF image, which
> is web friendly.
>
> Any ideas on how to define OUTPUTFORMAT and making sure a web friendly
> format is returned on requests?
>
> Thanks
>
> ..Tom
>
>

OUTPUTFORMAT
   NAME gif
   DRIVER "GD/GIF"
   MIMETYPE "image/gif"
   IMAGEMODE PC256
   EXTENSION "gif"
END

or

OUTPUTFORMAT
   NAME png
   DRIVER "GD/PNG"
   MIMETYPE "image/png"
   IMAGEMODE PC256
   EXTENSION "png"
END

HTH.
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