[mapserver-users] Ubuntu 14.04 and Mapserver 6.4.1-2

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

The difference is MapServer version, not Ubuntu. You *must* define a validation pattern (a regex) for qstring values. In either the web or layer block (depending on your app) you'd do something like:

VALIDATION
  'qstring' '^\/ESD-[0-9]*\/i$'
END

Depends on what sort of values you might see of course. It looks worse than it is because you want to escape (I think) a few special characters. Hope this helps.

Steve

From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Haug, Jim
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 3:15 PM
To: 'mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org'
Subject: [mapserver-users] Ubuntu 14.04 and Mapserver 6.4.1-2

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 with no visible issues.

The url below is generated in my web page code and is sent to the mapserver:

http://hawken.sdsmt.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv?mode=itemnquery&qformat=png&map=/gisdata/sd/sd_x-printform.map&qlayer=surveys&qitem=archive&qstring=/ESD-0498/i&layer=sites&layer=drg024k_13N&layer=drg024k_14N&layer=drg250k_13N&layer=drg250k_14N&layer=sd_plss&layer=sd_tr&mapsize=480+480&mapext=shape&scaledenom=932875

It worked fine in Ubuntu 13.10 using Mapserver version 6.2.1-3 and generated a map properly. It no longer works in mapserver 6.4.1-2 in Ubuntu 14.04. Now I get the error message

mapserv(): Web application error. Parameter 'qstring' value fails to validate. msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.

None of my underlying data or map files have changed. I'm completely mystified as to why this is happening. I hope I don't have to revert to Ubuntu 13.10, but I have a backup in case I need to.
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