[mapserver-users] Getcapabilities mime-type

[Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carmen Delia Hernández Pérez [mailto:cdhernandez at tenerife.es] 
> Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2009 07:59
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Getcapabilities mime-type
> 
> Thank you, but then for example  these WMS services that I 
> write don´t follow the OGC WMS ? When I do the request 
> GetCapabilites to these services My web browser show me the 
> answer directly.
> 
> 
> http://www.sigmayores.csic.es/ArcGIS/services/WMS/MapServer/WM
> SServer?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS
> 
> http://www.conselldemallorca.net/ide/wms_xarxa_transport/MapSe
> rver/WMSServer?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS
> 
> http://ide.jccm.es/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/webmapping/i
declm/mapserver/ideclm.map&version=1.0.0&REQUEST=GETCAPABILITIES
> 

Well, if it's returning a 1.1.0 or 1.1.1 WMS Capabilities document, the spec says that application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml must be returned as the MIME type.

> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Kralidis,Tom [Ontario] [mailto:Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca] 
> Enviado el: jueves, 21 de mayo de 2009 12:41
> Para: Carmen Delia Hernández Pérez; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Asunto: RE: [mapserver-users] Getcapabilities mime-type
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf 
> Of Carmen 
> > Delia Hernández Pérez
> > Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2009 06:52
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] Getcapabilities mime-type
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >    I have installed Mapserver v. 5.2.1 and it´s working. I 
> want my web 
> > browser understands directly the file returned by a request 
> > Getcapabilities, that is a xml file really, and don´t query me if I 
> > want to downloading file . I've read about mime-types 
> configuration in 
> > the httpd.conf file of Apache server, but I don`t know what I must 
> > write exactly.
> > 
> 
> See 
> http://www.mapserver.org/faq.html#when-i-do-a-getcapabilities-
> why-does-my-browser-want-to-download-mapserv-exe-mapserv 
> 
> You _could_ write a MapScript WxS wrapper to change the MIME 
> type when GetCapabilities is called, but note that you would 
> be breaking OGC WMS support.
> 
> ..Tom
>