Hi Stewart, I'm not familiar with Arcwebservices, what kind of url's are you talking about? Can you give an example?
Openlayers implements different kind of 'layers' for different kinds of datasources. Some examples of current datasources: OGC-WMS, OGC-WFS, Minnesota Mapserver, TMS, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, GML, KML, geoRSS etc etc. If you can make your webservice talk one of those 'dialects', it should be possible to use Openlayers as a client for your service. If your service uses a different protocol/standard, it's not trivial to implement it. In the examples directory http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/ you can find some examples with different 'datasources', eg: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/multiserver.html I think HTTPRequest is meant to be a base class for other layers which use http-request: Grid extents HTTPRequest, WMS extends Grid etc. Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde Stewart Nimmo wrote: > I am a newbie to Openlayers, with limited javascript experience. I am > trying to access and display data services such as Arcwebservices, but > I'm not clear if I insert the entire REST based url provided by ArcWeb > services into "Openlayers.Layers.HTTPRequest". The URL on it's own > generates a map image in the browser so I know it's working correctly. > > Is this what the "HTTPRequest" is for? > > regards > sfn > > Stewart > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
