[OpenLayers-Users] What is the easiest way to grab the URL string being sent to a WMS server?

[Erik Uzureau]

Thanks for this summary, Mike! I have added it as a question on the FAQ:
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#HowcanIseetheURLstringthatOpenLayersissendingtoaWMSserver


On 2/7/07, Mike Quentel <mikequentel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Many thanks to everyone that answered my question
> about obtaining the URL string being sent to a WMS.
> Here is a summary of these helpful answers:
>
> 1.  Yves Jacolin recommended using the Firefox
> extension Firebug (http://www.getfirebug.com/).  I
> downloaded this extension, and I must say that it does
> a fantastic job of obtaining the URL strings, and many
> other useful debug tasks.
>
> 2.  Tim Langlois recommended checking the Apache
> access_log files.  This works great for natively
> hosted WMS.  Very easy to check.
>
> 3.  Jon Blower suggested using the getURL function, as
> in the following: alert(my_wms.getURL(new
> OpenLayers.Bounds(...)));
> I've not tried this, but it looks like it might be
> useful for adding debug statements.
>
> 4.  Christopher Schmidt mentioned that Grid layers
> have a grid property that contains an array of an
> array of tiles, with each tile having a URL object.
> Also, he noted that one can simply right click on an
> image tile to obtain the URL property information.
> I've not tried the former idea, but I have used the
> latter before.  Simple to do.
>
> Many thanks to all of you for your help.
>
> Mike Quentel
>
> --- Mike Quentel <mikequentel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > For debug purposes, I would like to be able to
> > examine
> > the URL string that OpenLayers is sending to a WMS
> > server.  What is the easiest way to examine this?
> > Not
> > sure what method of what class in the API would
> > return
> > this string.  Thank you.
> >
> > Mike Quentel
> >
> >
> >
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