Thank you, Andrea. But this connector is server-sided only, am I correct? Or can it be used in the client side as well?
Regards, Kerick > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:14:26 +0200 > From: Andrea Peri <[email protected]> > Subject: [Qgis-user] Access to ArcIMS server with QGIS. > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <cabqtjk8_s2uldktj2g+vdp9deyhbkcxnlbwcybj1tix1kgd...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > >Is there some way to acess a ArcIMS server from within QGIS? I've done > some > >research in the web, and could find some indications it can be done with > >Openlayers(refs. 1,2), but I didn't find any specific instructions on how > >to do it. > > The standard arcims response in not usable from a wms client. > Because it is a two-phase request/response. > You send a a request to arcims, and it return you an xml . > This is the first response where arcims give any eventually request of > values, and the url to the image. > The client parse the xml response, get the url and start to call the second > request to get the image. > > However ArcIMS allow also working as a WMS server. > To do this is necessary install to install a specific connector (servlet > type) on a java engine. > This connector (named "wms-connector") is a wrapper that receive al the wms > request wrap it to a arcims request and return the response as a wms > response. > > This WMS connector is available in the DVD of ArcIMS. > Perhaps it is also downloadable from the esri site. > > OpenLayer more probably has decode the request/response of arcims. > It is pretty simple. > > Regards, > > -- > ----------------- > Andrea Peri > . . . . . . . . . > qwerty àèìòù > ----------------- > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/attachments/20120501/fb0b2bb2/attachment-0001.html > >
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