[MapServer-users] MapServer WEB global footer header are shown as result even if no feature was effected

[Astrid Emde (WhereGroup)]

Hello all,

I have noticed a different behaviour in MapServer 8 in comparision to 
MapServer 7.

In the Web-Section I use a global header and footer and I created an 
empty.html page. The definition in the Web-Section looks like:

WEB
    HEADER './templates/header.html'
    FOOTER './templates/footer.html'
    EMPTY 'http://myserver/ms_empty.html'

Before Version 8
- MapServer would show the EMPTY-html if no result comes back from a 
Featureinfo-Request

But with MapServer 8
- The Header & Footer are given back - with no results in the middle

When I define everything in the LAYER the behaviour is a bit better - I 
get back an empty result but still not the content of the EMPTY-File
     HEADER "./templates/header.html"
     TEMPLATE "./templates/plz.html"
     FOOTER "./templates/footer.html"

My question: How can I get back the old behaviour and only get back the 
content of the Empty-file?

Did the definition change?
Or is it a bug? Does someone else noticed the behaviour?

I checked the actual issues, but I could not find anything about it

https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/6907


Documentation see
https://mapserver.org/mapfile/web.html

-- 
Best regards

Astrid Emde
GIS-Consultant

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