[UNCLASSIFIED] Parameterized WMS anyone?

[Antti Roppola]

Hi all,
 
Has anyone experimented with parameterised WMS in Mapserver?

I have written a wrapper that modifies the GetCapabilities to include
a VendorSpecificCapabilities item for "species" and subsitute a nominated
species name into a PostGIS query (so that the one service can service all
species and use a sensible default if a species is not given).

Instead of fully wrapping the Mapserver CGI, I am just forwarding a
refomatted request to the Mapserver CGI by using a Location: HTTP header.
this works as expected in a web browser, but ArcGIS doesn't seem to like it.

I expect that I actually need to be invoking the CGI and piping back the
result so that the apparent URL doesn't change. However my current approach
means my wrapper never actually executes anything using submitted variables.

Cheers,
 
Antti

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