select output type on cgi query string?

[John Cole]

Bingo!  Thanks, that works.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Pericles S. Nacionales [mailto:naci0002 at umn.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:42 PM
To: John Cole
Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] select output type on cgi query string?

John,

Try adding &map_imagetype=png24 (or png/jpeg) for non-WMS MapServer CGI 
requests.

-Perry

John Cole wrote:
> Brock,
>   Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work in the cgi mode (at least on my
> 4.8.1).
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brock Anderson [mailto:banders at refractions.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:22 PM
> To: John Cole
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] select output type on cgi query string?
> 
> John,
> 
> Mapserver WMS lets you specify the output format in the URL.  Just add:
> 
>     &format=png  (or jpeg, gif, etc.)
> 
> ... to the request.  I'm not sure if non-WMS requests allow a similar 
> argument.
> 
> Brock
> 
> 
> John Cole wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to select the output type with the cgi query string?  When
> we
>> are using teraserver as a background, jpg looks best, but without it, png
>> looks best.  It would be nice to be able to switch that when the
teraserver
>> raster layers are selected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John Cole
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