[mapserver-users] run-time substitution

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello Eva,

Testing with MS4W 3.1.4 (MapServer 7.0.1) on Windows, I am able to pass 
"&ma_name=testing" in the url and the resulting GetCapabilities response 
correctly replaces that in the wms_onlineresource value.  Note that my 
validation block is slightly different than yours:

   WEB
     VALIDATION
       "ma_name" "[a-z]+"
     END
     METADATA
       "wms_onlineresource" "http://url/cgi-bin/gp_%ma_name%_com_wms?"
       ...
     END
     ...
   END


-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/



On 2016-07-11 12:39 PM, Eva Jelínková wrote:
> Dear mapserv people,
>
> does anybody has an experience with runtime substitution in MAP->WEB:
> METADATA section of mapfile (MapServer 7)?
> http://mapserver.org/cgi/runsub.html#parameters-supported
>
> I am trying to substitute part of 'wms_onlineresource' value, using
> default value in VALIDATION. GetCapabilities request gives me string
> with %name_of_parameter% in the URL.
>