What about using GROUPs or layers with the same name where the second layer
is TYPE QUERY?

Steve

>>> On 7/10/2008 at 2:14 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, percy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I discussed this issue with Tom K. on the IRC yesterday, and he thought 
> it was of general interest and should be posted and potentially 
> requested as a feature.
> 
> Scenario: we have a Geologic map that has super complex cartography that 
> we don't want to reproduce in the mapfile (600+ classes, tons of 
> patterns, etc). So we dumped out a raster of it to serve as WMS.
> 
> However, when the user does a GetFeatureInfo on this WMS, we want to 
> return attribute data from the original shapefile.
> 
> I can envision this being taken care of at the layer level as a metadata 
> tag like "WMS_query_redirect".
> 
> In the short term we're working on a little apache mod_rewrite magic to 
> take care of it :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Percy

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