[Qgis-user] Re: Qgis-user Digest, Vol 75, Issue 1

[Kerick Leite]

Thank you, Andrea.

But this connector is server-sided only, am I correct? Or can it be used in
the client side as well?

Regards,
Kerick


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> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:14:26 +0200
> From: Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Access to ArcIMS server with QGIS.
> To: kerick.quimica at gmail.com
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> >Is there some way to acess a ArcIMS server from within QGIS? I've done
> some
> >research in the web, and could find some indications it can be done with
> >Openlayers(refs. 1,2), but I didn't find any specific instructions on how
> >to do it.
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> The standard arcims response in not usable from a wms client.
> Because it is a two-phase request/response.
> You send a a request to arcims, and it return you an xml .
> This is the first response where arcims give any eventually request of
> values, and the url to the image.
> The client parse the xml response, get the url and start to call the second
> request to get the image.
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> However ArcIMS allow also working as a WMS server.
> To do this is necessary install to install a specific connector (servlet
> type) on a java engine.
> This connector (named "wms-connector") is a wrapper that receive al the wms
> request wrap it to a arcims request and return the response as a wms
> response.
>
> This WMS connector is available in the DVD of ArcIMS.
> Perhaps it is also downloadable from the esri site.
>
> OpenLayer more probably has decode the request/response of arcims.
> It is pretty simple.
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> Regards,
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