[mapserver-users] MapServer requires unnecessary SERVICE=WMSparameter in GetMap request

[Steve Lime]

I thought 5.2.1 fixed this already?

Steve

>>> On 12/22/2008 at 5:13 PM, in message
<30fe546d0812221513i32dc690dn703d65111f59080a at mail.gmail.com>, "Paul Ramsey"
<pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> Right you are, another hidden gem of the specification... I've
> assigned a ticket to this. It seems pretty important to my mind, so if
> others are busy, I'll fix it.
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2839 
> 
> P.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, John Maurer <maurerj at nsidc.org> wrote:
>> Dear MapServer users,
>> I recently discovered that MapServer (we are using 5.2.0) requires a SERVICE
>> parameter (i.e. SERVICE=WMS) in a GetMap OGC request even though this
>> parameter is not mentioned or required in the WMS 1.1.1 OGC specification
>> for GetMap requests:
>>
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms 
>>
>> It is strange that this is so since GetFeature and GetCoverage both require
>> the SERVICE paramter, but for whatever reason the GetMap spec doesn't. Kind
>> of an inconsistency in the OGC services, but MapServer needs to abide by it.
>>
>> This cropped up when a user contacted me that our WMS services were not
>> working in ArcGIS 9.2 after we upgraded MapServer from 4.9 to 5.2. After
>> discussion with ESRI, they pointed out that MapServer was throwing an error
>> about a missing SERVICE parameter because they do not include this parameter
>> in their GetMap requests. However, the SERVICE parameter should not be
>> required according to the spec.
>>
>> I modified our CGI to fill this parameter in by default if not provided as a
>> workaround, but a future release of MapServer should probably remove the
>> requirement for this parameter in GetMap requests. Or am I missing something
>> (always a possibility!)? Thanks!
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> John Maurer
>> Web/Database Applications Engineer
>> National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
>> University of Colorado at Boulder
>> http://cires.colorado.edu/~maurerj 
>> +1-303-586-1677
>> ------------------------------------
>> "Without geography, you're nowhere!"
>>
>>
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