WFS Problems

Tue Nov 30 12:22:13 PST 2004

Hi Bart,
(and dear List Members),

first of all I would like to apologize my late response on your quick
answer!
Unfortunatelly I was too busy to spend time on my WFS problem the last
couple of hours.

Regarding your answer I chanched the string:

CONNECTION
"http://babyz.uni-muenster.de/wfs/WFS?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&Typename=WLIS_UTM32&"
to:
CONNECTION "http://babyz.uni-muenster.de?/wfs/WFS?"
(you find the whole mapfile at the bottom of my answer)

This resulted in the following gml-file which was stored in the /tmp
directory:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Not Found</H1>
The requested URL /wfs/wfs was not found on this server.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Oracle HTTP Server Powered by Apache/1.3.22 Server at
BabyZ.geoinformatik.geo.uni-muenster.de Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

Than I chanced the CONNECTION string to:

CONNECTION "http://babyz.uni-muenster.de?"

This resulted in the message of following gml-file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>405 Method Not Allowed</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Method Not Allowed</H1>
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /index.html.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Oracle HTTP Server Powered by Apache/1.3.22 Server at
BabyZ.geoinformatik.geo.uni-muenster.de Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

As you mentioned earlier the WFS Server does not seem to be able to cope
with the POST request.
What does this mean ... and what can I do now?
For the first steps with WFS it might be an more promissing way to start
with another WFS server which is able to work with POST requests?
Would you - Or anybody else - know another WFS server and would also be
able to give me the necessary coordinates?

many thanks beforehand
Karsten

(the changed mapfile)

MAP
   NAME "wfs_client"
   SIZE 500 600
   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
   EXTENT 9000 5500000 1000000 5600000
   STATUS ON
   PROJECTION
    "init=epsg:4326"
   END

 WEB
   LOG "wfs_client.log"
    TEMPLATE "/srv/www/cgi-bin/docs/template5.htm"
    IMAGEPATH /var/tmp/
    IMAGEURL tmp
 END

  OUTPUTFORMAT
    NAME PNG
    DRIVER "GDAL/PNG"
    MIMETYPE "image/png"
    IMAGEMODE RGBA
    EXTENSION "png"
  END

 LAYER
    NAME "WaterLevel"
    TYPE LINE
    STATUS ON
    CONNECTION "http://babyz.uni-muenster.de?"
    CONNECTIONTYPE WFS
    PROJECTION
       "init=epsg:4326"
    END
    METADATA
     "wfs_version" "1.0.0"
     "wfs_typename" "bafg2"
     "wfs_service" "WFS"
     "wfs_connectiontimeout" "2000"
     "wfs_latlonboundingbox" "9000 5500000 1000000 5600000"
     "wfs_latlonboundingbox" "4.608 46.879 9.725 52.077"
    END
#    CLASSITEM "lineId"
     CLASS
#     EXPRESSION '124.0'
      Color 200 200 200
     END
  END
END

Bart van den Eijnden schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> could you try using a connection string without parameters. The typename
> you set through metadata differs from the typename you specify in the
> connection. The preferred way to do this now is to set all the variables
> through the METADATA and not in the connection string.
>
> CONNECTION "http://babyz.uni-muenster.de/wfs/WFS?"
>
> Also, does your WFS server support HTTP POST requests?
>
> Are there any error messages in your error logs? Is the gml actually
> being
> downloaded to the tmp directory?
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:56:13 +0100, K. Lessing <umn at KARSTEN-LESSING.DE>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear List member,
>>
>> I am new with the work on mapserver as wfs-client.
>> I am running Mapserver 4.2.5. with the support of all necessary
>> libraries on
>> Suse 9.1.
>> I read the How2 instruction page for setting up an WFS-Layer.
>> Unfortunatelly it does not work.
>> Does anybody maybe have a clue what could be wrong?
>> Please have a look on the following map file.
>>
>> thanx beforehand
>> K. Lessing
>>
>>
>> MAP
>> NAME "wfs_client"
>> SIZE 500 700
>> IMAGECOLOR 50 50 50
>> EXTENT 9000 5500000 1000000 5600000
>> STATUS ON
>> PROJECTION
>> "init=epsg:32632"
>> END
>>
>> WEB
>> TEMPLATE "template5.html"
>> IMAGEPATH "/srv/www/htdocs/tmp/"
>> IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>> END
>>
>> OUTPUTFORMAT
>> NAME "Farbenfroh"
>> DRIVER "GDAL/JPEG"
>> MIMETYPE "image/jpeg"
>> IMAGEMODE RGB
>> EXTENSION "jpeg"
>> END
>>
>> LAYER
>> NAME "WaterLevel"
>> TYPE LINE
>> STATUS DEFAULT
>> CONNECTION
>> "http://babyz.uni-muenster.de/wfs/WFS?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&Typename=WLIS_UTM32&"
>>
>> CONNECTIONTYPE WFS
>> PROJECTION
>> "init=epsg:32632"
>> END
>> METADATA
>> "wfs_version" "1.0.0"
>> "wfs_typename" "bafg2"
>> "wfs_service" "WFS"
>> "wfs_connectiontimeout" "60"
>> "wfs_latlonboundingbox" "9000 5500000 1000000 5600000"
>> "wfs_latlonboundingbox" "4.608 46.879 9.725 52.077"
>> END
>> CLASSITEM "lineId"
>> CLASS
>> EXPRESSION '124.0'
>> Color 200 200 200
>> END
>> END
>> END
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