Doh, good catch, I did not remember about this one :-)
Cheers
Andrea
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Nuno Oliveira <
nuno.olive...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is already possible to request the WMS 1.1 capabilities document in a
> specific format using the vendor parameter "format":
> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wms/
> reference.html#getcapabilities
>
> This request will set the mime-type to text\xml:
>
> http://<host>/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.1.1&
> request=GetCapabilities
>
> *&format=text/xml *Regards,
>
>
> On 10/24/2017 08:26 PM, Julian Hollingbery wrote:
>
> Try Ctrl-F5: I seem to remember that IE sometimes caches the Content-Type
> or something like that, and what you are seeing is the result of
> interpreting XML as plain text. If memory serves, that is...
>
> /julian
>
> On 24 Oct 2017, at 19.59, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
> wrote:
>
> 2017-10-24 15:48 GMT+02:00 Oscar Diago Alonso <oscar.di...@geograma.com>:
>
>> Good evening.
>>
>> Is there a reason for the weird result I get in Internet Explorer for the
>> GetCapabilities request of a WMS 1.1.1?
>>
>
> Just tried with IE 11 and can confirm the behavior. I've never seen a
> browser do this (Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge
> behavior is different), I believe it's caused by the weird content type
> that OGC imposed on the responses
> to WMS 1.1 GetCapabilities, that is, "application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml"
>
> I'm afraid there is nothing to be done, changing the MIME type would make
> GeoServer not compliant with the
> specification, WMS 1.1 is a legacy protocol (1.3 is the current version,
> even if 1.1 is better according to many)
> and IE as a browser is legacy as well.
> Also, a capabilities document is not really meant to be read by humans,
> but parsed by another program... a human
> can read it using a modern browser today (which will make you download the
> file, since the mime type is not
> XML, and you can then open it with an editor).
>
> But well, the code is there, if you want GeoServer to return a different
> content type you can modify it so that
> it does. Other software also allow to append vendor parameters (not in the
> spec) to force the content type
> to be "text/xml" instead, if you are interested in getting this
> functionality you can follow this guide:
>
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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