Mapserver CGI question

[Ryan, Adam]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ANDY CANFIELD [mailto:andy_canfield at HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 2:56 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver CGI question
>
>
> Is there a way to pass Mapserver the base CGI ( not using it
> as a wms ) some parameter and have it not return an image but
> instead return information about the mapfile like the
> available layer names, current extents and that sort of thing?
>
> sort of along the lines of (psuedo code)
>
http://mySite.com/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=myMap.map&mode=info&infotype=Layer
names

Andy,

This may not be what your looking for, but you might be able to use
javascript in a generic legend template such that it would grab all
available tags, test for null, and spit out a report.  I havn't tried this
but I have used javascript to process the sent parameters in a legend
template and I would think this is possible, though time consuming.

It would be cheating slightly, but you'd then
do...?map=myMap.map&mode=legend&map_legend_template=report.htm

Maybe?

Adam