[mapserver-users] Problem creating WMS

[Kristian Thy]

On Wed, Mar 26, Milo van der Linden wrote:
> svGIS will return text/html only when the WMS server returns a message 
> or error. The GetCapabilities is parsed correctly, but when the GetMap 
> is triggered, it occasionally returns text/html on error.
> 
> The best thing to do is copy the request string from svGIS to your WMS 
> server to a browser. If it is correct, you will see an image. If it is 
> wrong, The browser will tell you it wants to download a file called 
> "mapserv" or "mapserv.exe"

You could avoid this by asking for in-image error messages:

...&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.inimage

\\kristian
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