[mapserver-users] MapServer WMS don't work pretty well with arcgis desktop

[Andrea Aime]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having more user to report that the WMS MapServer is not shpwed on
> arcgis desktop.
>
> After a check I see that the issue i due to the fact that arcgis
> desktop when see a sublayer of a layer think that the layer is a
> folder (not a layer) and so
> it refuse to call it.
>
> Is this a knowed incompatibility between mapserver wms and arcgis ?
>

Don't know if it's relevant, but I've been reading the portion of the WMS
spec concerning
nested layers just a few days ago.
When nesting layers there are two cases:
- the parent layer has a Title, but not a Name. This is known as
"containing category",
  it helps categorizing the layers but cannot be called directly
- the parent layer has a Name, in such case it is callable and when
requested
  it should build a map with all the children

So, by my understanding of the spec, if your parent Layer does not have a
Name
ArcGis is right in not calling it, but if it has a Name, then it's a bug in
ArcGis.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Andrea


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