[mapserver-users] Forward time and other parameters to a layer defined as wms client

Seth G sethg at geographika.co.uk
Wed Aug 7 12:00:04 PDT 2019


Hi Søren,

Just to clarify you are using MapServer as a WMS Client as outlined here https://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_client.html
With "CONNECTIONTYPE WMS"?

Seth

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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019, at 7:55 PM, Søren Laursen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have been using mapserver to display static layers, and are now in progress of using it to display dynamic (time bound) layers.
> 
> We have a wms server that serve forecast, and we use a shape file to mask out areas, for example cut a forecast so it follow landmass.
> 
> This works perfect, but when we want to include the TIME parameter to show a forecast at a specific point in time, we cannot get mapserver to forward the parameter. 
> 
> Later on we will have the same problem with forecast that are bound by for example attitude and time.
> 
> We are using mapserver with apache, and in production we have a varnish in front (and banning urls when new forecast are ready).
> 
> I have look at time documentation of both the time wms settings and the runtime subtitionen but cannot figure out how we can make a solution.
> 
> When we hardcode a wms_time parameter in the layer definition everything works.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Søren
> 
> 
> 
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