Mapserver CGI question

[ANDY CANFIELD]

Thanks guys. I think the XML would work just fine for me. I'll give that a
go. The requests going to the mapserver CGI are from a wireless phone
application so I can't use Java script in a web page or anything in a web
page really. But I can parse XML and anything else an http connection can
return. So basically unless I want to write my own CGI that extends
Mapserver I'm stuck with the very basic basic CGI functionality of
Mapserver. Which is a lot of functionality but it's feels constraining after
using mapserver through it's php scripting interface.


>From: "Ryan, Adam" <ARyan at co.linn.or.us>
>To: ANDY CANFIELD <andy_canfield at HOTMAIL.COM>,
>MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver CGI question
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:11:23 -0700
>
>
> > -----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


>From: "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca>
>To: "ANDY CANFIELD"
><andy_canfield at HOTMAIL.COM>,<MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver CGI question
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:56:37 -0400
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: UMN MapServer Users List
> > [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of ANDY CANFIELD
> > Sent: Tuesday, 05 October, 2004 17:56
> > 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?
> >
>
>One option is to produce a web template as an XML document, i.e.:
>
><mapinfo>
>  <extent>
>    <bbox minx="[minx]" miny="[miny" maxx="[maxx]" maxy="[maxy]"/>
>  </extent>
>...
></mapinfo>
>
>..and have MapServer CGI return the XML document, which you can do
>whatever you please with.
>
>..Tom
>
> > sort of along the lines of (psuedo code)
> >
>http://mySite.com/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=myMap.map&mode=info&infotype=L
>ayernames
>

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