Arg, it was indeed. My cursory trac search didn't turn it up :( http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2737
I'll close out that new ticket. P On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Steve Lime <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought 5.2.1 fixed this already? > > Steve > >>>> On 12/22/2008 at 5:13 PM, in message > <[email protected]>, "Paul Ramsey" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Right you are, another hidden gem of the specification... I've >> assigned a ticket to this. It seems pretty important to my mind, so if >> others are busy, I'll fix it. >> >> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2839 >> >> P. >> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, John Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear MapServer users, >>> I recently discovered that MapServer (we are using 5.2.0) requires a SERVICE >>> parameter (i.e. SERVICE=WMS) in a GetMap OGC request even though this >>> parameter is not mentioned or required in the WMS 1.1.1 OGC specification >>> for GetMap requests: >>> >>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms >>> >>> It is strange that this is so since GetFeature and GetCoverage both require >>> the SERVICE paramter, but for whatever reason the GetMap spec doesn't. Kind >>> of an inconsistency in the OGC services, but MapServer needs to abide by it. >>> >>> This cropped up when a user contacted me that our WMS services were not >>> working in ArcGIS 9.2 after we upgraded MapServer from 4.9 to 5.2. After >>> discussion with ESRI, they pointed out that MapServer was throwing an error >>> about a missing SERVICE parameter because they do not include this parameter >>> in their GetMap requests. However, the SERVICE parameter should not be >>> required according to the spec. >>> >>> I modified our CGI to fill this parameter in by default if not provided as a >>> workaround, but a future release of MapServer should probably remove the >>> requirement for this parameter in GetMap requests. Or am I missing something >>> (always a possibility!)? Thanks! >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> John Maurer >>> Web/Database Applications Engineer >>> National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) >>> University of Colorado at Boulder >>> http://cires.colorado.edu/~maurerj >>> +1-303-586-1677 >>> ------------------------------------ >>> "Without geography, you're nowhere!" >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mapserver-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
