[OpenLayers-Users] [Users] Help on WFS Example Urgently Required

[Jo-V Ng Su Wei]

Any pointers on setting up cgi in Tomcat so that the proxy works?

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Uzureau [mailto:euzuro at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:26 AM
To: ngsuwei at stee.stengg.com
Cc: Users at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Help on WFS Example Urgently Required


FYI:

I have just added this question to the official OpenLayers FAQ:

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

If there are other questions that anyone out there thinks should be added to
the FAQ, please do not hesitate to edit the wiki yourselves.
(username/password: openlayers/openlayers for those of you without accounts)





On 10/18/06, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:
> From a previous post by chris schmidt:
>
>
> Due to security restrictions in Javascript, it is not possible to 
> retrieve information from remote domains via XMLHttpRequest. The way 
> to work around this is to set up a local script which can 'proxy' 
> information from the remote host. An example script to do this is 
> available from the examples directory as proxy.cgi:
>
> http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/examples/proxy.cgi
>
> To use WFS results from a remote host on your machine, you must 
> install a proxy script somewhere web accessible from the domain you 
> plan to use to host your page. You must then edit ProxyHost to match 
> that URL: an example URL for most Apache configurations might be:
>
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost="/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";
>
> If the ProxyHost is not set, requests are sent directly. In most 
> cases, the result will be a security exception.
>
> If you are still having problems with this, please send a link to an 
> example page on the web where the WFS example fails.
>
>
> On 10/15/06, ngsuwei at stee.stengg.com <ngsuwei at stee.stengg.com> wrote:
> > I have downloaded the latest codes using svn. However the WFS 
> > example is not working. But the one in the live example is working. 
> > Is it because the downloaded code is not latest code as the one in 
> > live example or is there any missing configuration at my side? I saw 
> > the codes there is this proxy thing, what is this for or do i need 
> > to set up one? Immediate help is very appreciated as i am reaching 
> > my deadline for the WFS portion to work. Thanks in advance.
> >
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