[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #670: terraserver WMS getcapabilities not understood

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#670: terraserver WMS getcapabilities not understood
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        Reporter:  neteler at itc.it                    |         Owner:  homann       
            Type:  defect                            |        Status:  assigned     
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.0
       Component:  WMS                               |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:  wms          
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  RedHat       
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0            
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Comment (by tomkralidis):

 Replying to [comment:5 mhugent]:
 > The problem is that terraserver uses different urls for GetCapabilities
 and GetMap:
 >
 > http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ogccapabilities.ashx
 >
 > and
 >
 > http://terraservice.net/ogcmap.ashx
 >
 > In my opinion, this is a strange interpretation of the WMS
 specification. Should qgis support several urls? I think if it is only
 terraserver, then not. If there are more wms servers like this out there,
 then probably yes.

 Yes, this is strange, but legal.  FWIW, in practice, I think this is one
 of the only WMS endpoints I've seen configured like this.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/670#comment:7>
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