On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Andreas Hocevar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in WMS, the param to set is not "map_imagetype", but "format". And you have 
> to provide a format that your mapfile knows about (e.g. "image/gif").
>

Brilliant! The above works. I wonder from where I got
"map_imagetype"... I am darned sure I didn't dream it up, am just not
that creative.

Anyway, now I get gifs back.


> Regards,
> Andreas.
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:52 , P Kishor wrote:
>
>> My MapServer WMS server is capable of sending back GIFs or 8-bit PNGs,
>> and I have tested it via cgi calls that it does so successfully.
>> However, even though I have `map_imagetype: "gif",` set in my WMS
>> layer definition, I only get back truecolor PNGs. What gives?
>>
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