[mapserver-users] Problem with WMS Request through Mapserver

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

metadata name is in fact ows_exceptions_format instead of ows_exception


Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> Maybe you could do a GetCapabilities request on the WMS server and see 
> what are the types of exceptions that are supported by the server. It 
> might support other exceptions than the application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage. 
> if that is the case, you can set a layer level metadata called 
> ows_exception to the one that is supported. Something like:
>   METADATA
>    "ows_exception" "supported_exception"
>    ...
>   END
> 
> best regards,
> 
> 
> Robert Hicks wrote:
>> I am making a WMS request from a simple OpenLayers client to Mapserver 
>> which is in turn calling another WMS server. My problem is, is that 
>> the call from MapServer to the secondary WMS server has an extra 
>> paramater tacked on: EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage (I saw 
>> this going through Wire Shark which is a packet sniffer), and when I 
>> grab the exact call, strip out that argument, the image returns fine. 
>> Is there a way to specify, in the map file, that I either do not want 
>> this? Note, that the request coming from OpenLayers does not have this 
>> argument (I found this out via Firebug).
>>
>> Here is a layer out of my map file:
>>
>>  LAYER
>>   # name of layer
>>   #
>>   NAME "Infrared1995"
>>   GROUP "newjerseywms"
>>     # what type of data is this?
>>   TYPE RASTER
>>
>>   # always returned with interface
>>   STATUS ON
>>
>>   CONNECTION "http://njwebmap.state.nj.us/njorthos"
>>   CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
>>   METADATA
>>     "wms_srs"             "EPSG:4326"
>>     "wms_name"            "Infrared1995"
>>     "wms_server_version"  "1.1.1"
>>     "wms_format"          "image/png"
>>   END
>>  END
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>>
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