[Users] Basic WMSCapabilitiesStore question

[Eric Lemoine]

On Friday, November 19, 2010, Jason Woolard <Jason.Woolard at noaa.gov> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I saw a few posts in the archives related to this but I'm still unclear
> about how get it working. Using the wms-capabilities I'm able generate a
> grid of wms capabilities using an xml document saved locally:
>
>   store = new GeoExt.data.WMSCapabilitiesStore({
>          url: 'WMSServer.xml',
>          autoLoad: true
>      });
>
> But I really want to retrieve a document from an external server.
> Something like
>
> store = new GeoExt.data.WMSCapabilitiesStore({
>          url: 'http://www.someWMSsomewhere......',
>          autoLoad: true
>      });
>
> A post in the archives points to the same origin policy as the reason
> for this and says a scripting proxy is needed but then I saw something
> else that suggested I might not need one. Is that the issue here?

Most probably. If your web page isn't served from www.someWMSsomewhere
then you'll face the Same Origin Policy issue and need a proxy.

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