WFS Metadata versus connection string (envdat WFS)

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Assefa,

This might the case.  The server is running 4.2.0, client 4.4.0-beta2.
I won't be pushing our people to update until 4.4.0 proper on the server
side.

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:assefa at dmsolutions.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, 22 November, 2004 15:38
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WFS Metadata versus 
> connection string (envdat WFS)
> 
> 
> Tom,
> 
>   Ist it possible that the wfs *server* is running an older 
> version of 
> Mapserver (when the xml post requests were not yet supported) 
> and that 
> the client is runnign using a more recent version ?
> 
> Later,
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> 
> >>Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm working with this WFS data:
> >>>
> >>
> >>http://map.ns.ec.gc.ca/envdat/map.aspx?service=WFS&version=1
> .0.0&reque
> >>
> >>>st=GetCapabilities
> >>>
> >>>It works, but I'm a bit confused when using the data in my
> >>
> >>map file.
> >>
> >>>If I put the parameters manually into the connection string/URL, it
> >>>works.  But if I put parameters like wfs_version, 
> >>
> >>wfs_request into the
> >>
> >>>metadata section for the layer (and remove them from the URL) it
> >>>doesn't seem to work anymore.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Are you using 4.2 or 4.4?
> >>
> >>If you are using 4.4, then wfs_* metadata should be supported
> >>(and the old method of passing everything in the CONNECTION 
> >>string deprecated), but unfortunately the WFS Client HOWTO 
> >>still hasn't been updated to reflect that. You may find some 
> >>useful hints in bug 417: 
> >>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=417
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, I just tested this again with 4.4.0-beta2, and 
> get the same 
> > issues Tyler has (parameters embedded in CONNECTION work, 
> parameters 
> > as
> > METADATA/wfs_* with no parameters in CONNECTION does not).
> > 
> > When I try this, .gml files are written to my temp directory.  Upon 
> > checking these w.r.t. this issue, they all come back as OGC service 
> > exceptions, like:
> > 
> > "VERSION keyword missing"
> > 
> > ..and so on.
> > 
> > ..Tom
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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