On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:57 PM, <christopher.schm...@nokia.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Same for MapFish.
>>> bbox = map(float, "1,2,3,4,foo".split(","))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): foo
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