MapServer with MapInfo (WFS)

[Daniel Morissette]

Francesco,

Have you tried using a wrapper script to pass the map parameter via the 
MS_MAPFILE environment variable using one of the methods suggested in 
the WMS server howto at:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server/#more-about-the-online-resource-url

I would be interested to know if MapInfo works if the map path is passed 
this way.

Daniel


Francesco Antognini wrote:
> Hello
> I think I'm stuck on a similar problem and maybe I can give further 
> information.
> I'm basically doing the same thing, testing the WFS service with Mapinfo 
> and while a GetFeature issued from a browser works fine, the same thing 
> done from Mapinfo doesn't work. (WMS works fine)
> 
> After poking around with various tools, I start to believe this might be 
> a POST vs. GET issue.
> A browser works with GET requests and appends parameters to the URL, 
> including the vital map path. This works fine.
> However MapServer in GetCapabilities advertises the POST services too, 
> and some clients will indeed send their requests as POST of XML data. 
> Mapinfo does it for sure.
> Now: no matter what workaround I use to bring the map into the request, 
> this will still appear as an URL parameter, while the rest of the 
> request is posted as XML.
> My feeling is that mapserv.exe gets confused about this and thinks that 
> this is really a GET request and starts complaining in various ways 
> about lack of parameters.
> 
> If that's the real issue, then I can think of some workarounds. The 
> first being how to reinject the map into the request without using a URL 
> parameter. Any idea?
> 
> Hope I haven't been too confusing
> TIA
> F.Antognini
> 
> 
> On 4/26/06, *Léveillé, James* <James.Leveille at mtq.gouv.qc.ca 
> <mailto:James.Leveille at mtq.gouv.qc.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
>      
>     I'm trying to test MapServer (v 4.8.3), the WFS service, with
>     MapInfo (v 8.0) and keep having this error message:
>      
>     *"The WFS Server returned data which was neither in the requested
>     format nor a recognized WFS service exception : POST body is short.*
>     *In response to a DescribeFeatureType request, the WFS Server
>     returned an invalid feature type."*
>      
>     The GetCapabilities looks fine, and the GetFeature works fine with
>     IE ...
>     Here is my (simple) MapFile.
>      
>     THANKS A LOT !!!
>     <snip> 
> 
>     ...................
>      
>      </snip>
> 
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>      
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> 
> -- 
> Francesco Antognini
> Computer Consultant
> Switzerland
> fantognini at gmail.com <mailto:fantognini at gmail.com>


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Daniel Morissette
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