Problems with mime type in WMS capabilities request

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Hello,

As a workaround, you should also be able to associate this mime type with your browser itself (when your browser asks you how to open the file, select the browser itself.) It works for me using Firefox, Mozilla or IE. The browser then opens the "downloaded file" into a new tab or window.

Best regards,

Jean-Guilhem


----- Message d'origine ----- 
De : "Bart van den Eijnden" <bartvde at XS4ALL.NL>
À : <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Envoyé : vendredi 11 mars 2005 19:27
Objet : Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problems with mime type in WMS capabilities request


Hi,

there is no way to control it since it required by the OGC specification
(at least WMS 1.1.X), except for changing the source code and recompile.
Or use &version=1.0.7 instead.

Those other services are not fully OGC complaint, since the spec states
you have to use application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml for a GetCapabilities
response. See also:

http://cite.occamlab.com/test_engine/wms_1_1_1/files/wms_assertions/

testcase: "ms/wmsops/getcapabilities/response/1"

When a GetCapabilities request is made, then the content-type header of
the response is application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml

Best regards,
Bart

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:06:01 +0000, Nuno GIL <nunoragil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> But is there any way of controlling the capabilities output mime type
> in MapServer?
> If I test other services, also WMS 1.1 compliant, their capabilities
> document is automatically show on the browser...
> Thanks in advance,
> Nuno
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:14:35 +0100 (CET), bartvde at xs4all.nl
> <bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Nuno,
>>
>> this was something introduced by OGC in WMS spec 1.1, they invented
>> their
>> own mime types, but ofcourse no single browser interprets things like:
>> application/vnd.ogc.se_xml.
>>
>> In WMS 1.3 they have changed the MIME type for capabilities back to
>> text/xml AFAIK.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
>> > Dear Listers,
>> > When I request a getcapabilites from our server
>> >
>> (http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wms?map=wms.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities),
>> > the capabilities file type that is returned is not recognized as XML
>> > and not displayed immediately on the browser... To go around this I
>> > simply rename the file adding an XML extension to it. This may have to
>> > do with a wrong mimetype configuration...
>> > Any ideas how to sort this out?
>> > Regards,
>> > Nuno
>> >
>>
>>
>



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