[Qgis-user] Problems with adding a WFS layer

[Ari Jolma]

Hello,

I've set up a WFS server and try to use layers it services. I'm 
currently using 1.7.3-Wroclaw. The server is GDAL based written in Perl. 
I find that QGIS is very picky (more than Firefox) on the size of XML 
and may stall on waiting for characters - this is an issue with XML 
files containing non-ascii characters. I believe I have fixed those 
issues though and now the XML is correct utf8 and size is reported in 
bytes as it is supposed to.

I have a particular layer that QGIS receives well when served over 
standard http but stalls when trying to access it over https. The same 
URL works well in Firefox and ogrinfo receives the same layer without 
problems. QGIS prints "received 16384 bytes from 38435" to the status 
line and goes grey. 38435 is the correct size and the server sends it in 
exactly the same way to QGIS, Firefox and ogrinfo.

I have no idea why this layer (some work well) and why https is a 
problem and http is not (for this layer).

Any ideas?

Ari Jolma