[OpenLayers-Users] How to send a GetCapabilities request to a SOS service?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

There is no support for SOS GetCapabilities POST, only GET.

Best regards,
Bart

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On Jun 10, 2013, at 5:15 PM, dkar <dimitriskarakostis3 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I am trying to understand how to send a GetCapabilities post request to a
> SOS service.
> Based on examples that I found online, I tried something like this:
> 
> OpenLayers.SOSClient = OpenLayers.Class({
>            url: 'http://cawa.gfz-potsdam.de:8080/SOS/sos',
>            map: null,
>            capsformat: new OpenLayers.Format.SOSCapabilities(),
>            obsformat: new OpenLayers.Format.SOSGetObservation(),
>            initialize: function (options) {
>                OpenLayers.Util.extend(this, options);
>                var params = {'service': 'SOS', 'request':
> 'GetCapabilities'};
>                var paramString =
> OpenLayers.Util.getParameterString(params);
>                url = OpenLayers.Util.urlAppend(this.url, paramString);
>                OpenLayers.Request.GET({url: url,
>                    success: alert(url);});
>            },...
> 
> But it doesn't work. Is there another way to do it? For example, to send the
> request in XML format instead of a url? Any advice would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> D.
> 
> 
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