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From: UMN MapServer
Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael S. Birkmose Hi, I’m investigating the possibility of using Mapserver
to generate a WMS server. However my needs are a bit special. I need to offer some layers
which are dynamically generated by my own C++ application. I was wondering if there was any possibility in mapserver to
interface to my C++ application? Its not a possibility for me to generate a
large tiff or something similar. I need to pass each WMS request for the
specific layer to the C++ application. The output is always a raster. Best regards, Michael Micheal, I think the simplest way would be to use a
proxy, if I was doing this in Java I would have a servlet listening to incoming
requests and then forwarding these requests depending on layer name to the
appropriate server (your c++ app, or MapServer respectively). If you want to test this quickly,
mod_python (http://www.modpython.org)
and Apache will let you create a proxy very quickly, and with the added bonus
that you can use Python and GDAL to do any merging of layers from the c++ app,
and MapServer if required. There is probably a neat way to do this
with the internals of MapServer, but if I were in a rush I would use a proxy. Norman |
- [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Dynamic layers Michael S. Birkmose
- Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Dynamic layers Norman Barker
