[OpenLayers-Dev] HTTP params capitalization

Schuyler Erle schuyler at nocat.net
Wed Nov 23 10:18:33 EST 2011


Unless I'm sorely mistaken, don't ESRI servers violate this part of the spec by requiring capitalized parameter names? ISTR that's why we did this.

SDE

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Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I need to pass a vendor-specific GetMap param, but OpenLayers
>capitalizes parameter names, which makes the WMS server ignore this
>specific param. I'm wondering why OpenLayers capitalizes parameter
>names. That doesn't make sense to me. And we do that at a low level,
>in Layer.HTTPRequest, which means that every class that extends
>Layer.HTTPRequest is concerned. The OGC WMS and OWSCommon specs state
>the following: "Parameter names shall not be case sensitive, but
>parameter values shall be case sensitive.".
>
>Should I make a patch for that?
>
>Thanks for any response.
>
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