[mapserver-users] POST for WMS - supported

Thu Mar 5 01:22:45 PST 2015

> In Section 9.2.4 of the MapServer v6.0 Manual, under "OGC Support and
> Configuration / WMS Server / WMS 1.3.0 Support / Some Missing features" it
> lists "WMS 1.3.0 Post request should be an XML document containing the
> different operations and parameters."  (Also appears in the current
> version
> documentation v7 beta, although page hasn't been updated since 2013.)
> 
> - is this suggesting that POST is not supported?
> 

Nope. Sending the KVP request with mimetype "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" via POST is fully supported. Simple example:

# wget -d -O- --post-data="service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities" http://host/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/path/to/mapfile.map