Hello everyone!
For special reasons (dynamic data) I need to create some sort of
proxy/wrapper around mapserv (5.2) to permit the dynamic modification of
the mapfile based on the age of the specific mapfile.
Basically the user will request a mapfile which on most ocasions will be
generated on the fly (server-side). I would like to feed this mapfile to
mapserv and return the image to the user in a way it's compatible with
open layers. The user would see this wapper in a transparent way.
I know how to configure the openlayers part and I know how to generate
the map file, but I'm not sure how to link my wrapper to mapserver...
How do I call mapserver the same way the web server would call it? I
think if I call it through a shell, it wouldn't work the same way. I
don't really want to call shp2img because it's harder to maintain.
The output part should be straightforward - I would just print out what
mapserver returns - because it should take care of setting content-type
and sending the image.
Any tips on where I could start?
Thanks!
P.S. I'm writing the wapper in perl and I'm not using the mapserver API
(but I could if it's necessary)
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