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

[Paul Ramsey]

Arg, it was indeed. My cursory trac search didn't turn it up :(

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2737

I'll close out that new ticket.

P

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> 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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