Different GetCapabilities and GetMap onlineresources in WMS

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
 
>> I have faced a WMS service that is configured to use 
>> different onlineresources for GetCapabilities, GetMap and 
>> GetFeatureInfo requests.  I do not have a live access to the 
>> service yet so I have to ask: When Mapserver is used as a WMS 
>> client, does it parse the onlineresource URLs from the 
>> GetCapabilities document or is it just using the same base 
>> URL for all requests? Or is there a possibility to give this 
>> essential information with some metadata entry like 
>> "wms_GetMap_onlineresource"?

>The latter.  As a WMS Client, MapServer does not parse the remote WMS'
>Capabilities XML, but uses the CONNECTION directive within LAYER.  That
>said, there are cases (not many, but there are) where OnlineResource's
>differ between operations.

>So, in this case, you would use the OnlineResource for GetMap as the
>CONNECTION in your mapfile.

Oh, naturally. I was thinking about how to pass on the GetCapabilities info, but with cascading WMS it is me who is generating and sending that info for the clients. And if I remember right, GetFeatureInfo does not work with cascading WMS so it does not matter if Mapserver does not know where to send those requests.

-Jukka-