[OpenLayers-Users] proxy.cgi on dreamhost?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:59:25PM -0700, Matt Kenny wrote:
> Hello Everyone! Over the weekend, I use FWTools to create a WFS and WMS with
> some sample data on my shared hosting account with dreamhost.com. Both work
> fine when calling them from QGIS, but I'd like to use openlayers to allow
> users to both spatial and attribute information about my source data. I soon
> realized however, that i needed to use the example proxy.cgi script in order
> to display the WFS data. 

You shouldn't. Your MapServer is running on Dreamhost, right? All you
have to do is ensure that the:

  http://myhost/

Is the same in both your WFS layer and the HTML document you're
accessing.

You can generally *ensure* this by making the WFS layer load from
"/cgi-bin/mapserv" -- if the URL is relative (rather than absolute) then
there's no way you can break the same origin policy.

I would recommend tryign this, unless I'm seriously misunderstanding
your problem. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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