Tim, I've been able to reproduce my problem with code that is 99% not my own. I used the example page for the WFS:Get Feature control (http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/getfeature-wfs.html) as my starting point.
My test page has none of my application's code in it except for the extension to the OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.v1 we've been talking about. That script's contents are as follows and contained in the script src'd at "/agmaf/js/AgMaf/OpenLayers/Protocol/WFS/v1.js" in the test page: var orig = OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.v1.prototype.handleRead; OpenLayers.Util.extend(OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.v1.prototype, { handleRead: function(response, options) { alert("handleRead"); orig.apply(this, arguments); } }); As for my test page, I tried to remove all superfluous code in the example page and was left with this: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/openlayers/theme/default/style.css" /> </head> <body onload="init();"> <div id="map"></div> </body> </html> I am still able to reproduce the handleRead function not being overridden properly. That is, when I draw a box on the map's features and the WFS GetFeatureInfo request is sent and processed, the alert box saying "handleRead" does not appear. The original handleRead from the OpenLayers script is being run instead. Now, a couple of items may need to be mentioned/clarified here: 1. I am using OpenLayers 2.8. This work is part of an existing application in production and there are no plans to upgrade at this time; therefore, I must work in that version. 2. I'm testing this in IE 6 (although I don't think that really matters but it explains why I'm able to circumvent the cross-domain service requests to the WMS/WFS above...I just say yes to the message. When I tried it in FF 3.6, I changed the WMS/WFS to one on my local network for which I have a reverse proxy already defined from my localhost. Didn't show the alert box there either. 3. Finally, the "OpenLayers_original.js" src'd in my test page is the originally-circulated OpenLayers.js script that came with 2.8. We use a cut down version in our application that leaves out a lot of classes we don't use. For this, though, I went back to the full script. Is it possible there's something wrong with how this stuff was set up in OpenLayers 2.8 that has since been corrected and that's why it's working for you? Or, is there something about the way the GetFeature control with the WFS Protocol is using these classes that isn't allowing it to "override" properly? Any ideas at all? Feel free to say no...after all, it's not your problem. It's just that given that this isn't working in the test page, which is as simple an example as I can make that replicates what I'm trying to do and is almost entirely not my own code (and less likely to be wrong, I hope), I really haven't a clue how to proceed. In theory, it should be working. Cheers, jtm -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/How-to-override-abstract-OpenLayers-Protocol-WFS-v1-tp6534072p6546844.html Sent from the OpenLayers Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev