On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:42 PM, ext Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
>
> Are there people that use the HTTP protocol against services that would break
> if the BBOX query string parameter included the SRS identifier?
>
> E.g.
>
> http://example.com/features?bbox=1,2,3,4,foo
>
> The WFS 1.1 spec allows clients to specify the SRS for a bounding box by
> including the SRS identifier as the fifth item in the array. I'd like to add
> this functionality to the HTTP protocol if it wouldn't make existing
> applications break.
FeatureServer would break; "action.bbox = map(float, value.split(","))" would
barf on
it if the value were not a float-able number, I believe.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/ticket/3006
>
> An alternative would be to only invoke this functionality if a property were
> set on the protocol.
As much as I hate to introduce more properties, I think this is a better
idea.
-- Chris
> Thanks for any feedback,
> Tim
>
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