[mapserver-users] I've been accused of not using things the way they were intended, but . . . can a getcapabilities request be run through the MapServer TEMPLATE for output?

2013-01-28 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, So, I was thinking about adding support for Raster pulling from AutoCAD work sessions directly. We've had this capability in place for a number of years using MapServer calls to each layer individually. I'm researching the idea of rebuilding the importing routines but with the added

Re: [mapserver-users] I've been accused of not using things the way they were intended, but . . . can a getcapabilities request be run through the MapServer TEMPLATE for output?

2013-01-28 Thread Brent Fraser
Bob, I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do (on the mapserver side or the Autocad side!). Do you want mapserver to return a list of layers (when sent an OGC GetCapabilities or equivalent non-standard request) in a format of your choosing, similar to the way template-driven

Re: [mapserver-users] I've been accused of not using things the way they were intended, but . . . can a getcapabilities request be run through the MapServer TEMPLATE for output?

2013-01-28 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Brent, Pretty much as you describe . . . I want a list of layers but in my own form (Not OGC), specifically, I've used a TEMPLATE in the past to output LISP code that I can run in AutoCAD as an executable, sort of a poor man's importer for raster images. This has been working for over a