[webmap-discuss] mapserver and xml respons

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

This is the way OGC defines it in WMS 1.1.X. In later versions they use
text/xml again.

So Mapserver is doing the right thing according to the spec. Nothing much to
be done about it I guess.

Best regards,
Bart

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Onderwerp: [webmap-discuss] mapserver and xml respons
Datum: 14/12/06 09:36

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering how to solve the following problem:
> I've got a mapbuilder/mapserver setup where mapserver is setup with
> relative paths, if I request a capabilities doc:
> &lt;option
>
value=&quot;javascript:config.loadModel('wmsCapTemplate','/cgi-bin/edugis/mapserv.cgi?map=maps/edugis/cbs.map&amp;amp;version=1.1.0&amp;amp;&amp;amp;request=GetCapabilities&amp;amp;&amp;amp;service=WMS')&quot;&gt;
> I'm talking directly to mapserver and it gives me a capabilities doc
> with content-type:
> application/ogc.vnd.wms_xml which my browser does not understand as xml.
> So my XmlHttpRequest bails out with a no XMLResponse error and
> mapbuilder cannot parse the capabilities doc.
> 
> I'm not sure why mapserver returns this content-type, as far as I know
> this is not supported by most browsers (IE). FF1.5 is slightly smarter,
> it recognises the &lt;?xml first line and parses the the doc anyway, but I
> end up with a namespaces hell for some odd reason.
> 
> The usual solution for mapbuilder is to use a proxy which sets the
> content type to text/xml and everything works fine. However for my
> particular setup I cannot use the proxy, so I rebuild mapserver with a
> hardcoded content-type 'text/xml'.
> 
> My questions to you all are:
> -anyone came across this problem before?
> -is there a way to make browsers understand application/ogc.vnd.wms_xml?
> -is it possible to set mapserver's content-type to text/xml
> -if not WHY NOT?
> 
> Regards,
> Steven
> 
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