Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] >> I have faced a WMS service that is configured to use >> different onlineresources for GetCapabilities, GetMap and >> GetFeatureInfo requests. I do not have a live access to the >> service yet so I have to ask: When Mapserver is used as a WMS >> client, does it parse the onlineresource URLs from the >> GetCapabilities document or is it just using the same base >> URL for all requests? Or is there a possibility to give this >> essential information with some metadata entry like >> "wms_GetMap_onlineresource"?
>The latter. As a WMS Client, MapServer does not parse the remote WMS' >Capabilities XML, but uses the CONNECTION directive within LAYER. That >said, there are cases (not many, but there are) where OnlineResource's >differ between operations. >So, in this case, you would use the OnlineResource for GetMap as the >CONNECTION in your mapfile. Oh, naturally. I was thinking about how to pass on the GetCapabilities info, but with cascading WMS it is me who is generating and sending that info for the clients. And if I remember right, GetFeatureInfo does not work with cascading WMS so it does not matter if Mapserver does not know where to send those requests. -Jukka-
