[OpenLayers-Users] WMSGetFeatureInfo and proxy

[Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca]

That works!
Not sure to understand why though?

thanks
Steve


Steve Toutant, M. Sc.
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François Van Der Biest <francois.vanderbiest at camptocamp.com> 
18/09/2009 10:34 AM

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Re: [OpenLayers-Users] WMSGetFeatureInfo and proxy








Hi Steve,

What if you try with this url :
 url: '/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/paccSante/map/paccsante_hlm.map&',

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:27 PM,  <Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm using WMSGetFeatureInfo to query a specific layer. The information 
is
> retrieved from the same server/domain where the application and 
mapserver
> are installed.
> The answer I get is "The requested URL /cgi-bin/proxy.cgi was not found 
on
> this server."
> I read this http://faq.openlayers.org/proxyhost/all/
> and I already set a proxy on another server for another project.
>
> But in this case my understanding was that I don't need a proxy since 
I'm
> not querying a remote server. I can't see why my code is requesting
> /cgi-bin/proxy. It should call directly cgi-bin/mapserver? isn'it?
>
> Here is my code
> infoControls =
>         {
>             click: new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({
>                 //url: 'http://IP
> address/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/paccSante/map/paccsante_hlm.map&',
>                 maxFeatures: 12,
>                 title: 'Identify features by clicking',
>                 layers: [overlays['HLM']],
>                 queryVisible: true,
>                 infoFormat:'text/html'
>             })
> }
> infoControls['click'].events.register("getfeatureinfo", this, showInfo);
> map.addControl(infoControls['click']);
> infoControls['click'].activate();
>
> If I uncomment the url parameter I got the same result.
> What could be the reason why it is looking for a proxy?
> This line IS NOT in my code
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";
>
>
> thanks
> Steve
>
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