[Users] WMSCapabilitiesStore URL problem

[Hugo]

Thanks a lot Anne. That solved the problem :)
Everything runs smoothly now.
Cheers,

Hugo

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Anne Brookes <
anne.brookes at jbaconsulting.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hello Hugo,
>
> I had the same problem and found that amending the proxy.cgi, where it
> handles the url= part of the querystring, solved the problem.
>
> This is the new bit of the proxy.cgi:
>
> method = os.environ['REQUEST_METHOD']
>
> qs = os.environ['QUERY_STRING']
>
> if (method == 'POST') or (method == 'PUT'):
>
>     d = cgi.parse_qs(qs)
>
>     if d.has_key('url'):
>
>         url = d['url'][0]
>
>     else:
>
>         url = default_url
>
> else:
>
>     #fs = cgi.FieldStorage()
>
>     #url = fs.getvalue('url', default_url) # get url to proxy to from
> request URL, or use default
>
>     url = qs[4:]  #fetch from query string minus first 'url='
>
>
>
> I have commented out the original fs = cgi.FieldStorage() and url =
> fs.getvalue('url', default_url) lines and replaced with  url = qs[4:]  (and
> added qs = os.environ['QUERY_STRING'] at the top.  This seemed to be a
> more robust way of slicing the url string from the original querystring than
> getting it from the FieldStorage object.
>
>
>
> I hope this works for you too.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> *Anne Brookes*
>
> Senior Analyst - GIS and System Development
>
>
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> *From:* users-bounces at geoext.org [mailto:users-bounces at geoext.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Hugo
> *Sent:* 31 May 2011 15:12
> *To:* users at geoext.org
> *Subject:* [Users] WMSCapabilitiesStore URL problem
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having troubles to populate the WMSCapabilitiesStore. I have the
> following code:
>
> var wmsStore = new GeoExt.data.WMSCapabilitiesStore({
>    url: '
> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ows?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1
> ',
>    autoLoad: true
> });
>
> The request is never shown in firebug. I know this might be related with
> the proxy definition but i'm sure i have configured the openlayers proxy.cgi
> correctly once that i'm able to correctly load WFS coming from this very
> same Geoserver. Also, when using the following address (directly on the
> browser) the response is returned correctly:
>
>
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ows?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1
> '
>
> However if i try to use this url for the store i get the following error:
>
>  <ServiceException code="MissingParameterValue" locator="request">
>       Could not determine geoserver request from http request org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade
>
>
>
> I think this is related with wrong parameter passing to the server because,
> if i check the request params in firebug i can see the following:
>
> REQUEST
>
> GetCapabilities
>
> VERSION
>
> 1.1.1
>
> url
>
> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ows?SERVICE=WMS
>
>
>
> I have also tried with the following code:
>
> var wmsStore = new GeoExt.data.WMSCapabilitiesStore({
>   proxy: new Ext.data.ScriptTagProxy({
>       url: '
> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ows?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1
> ',
>    }),
>    autoLoad: true
> });
>
> With this approach i get an error related to the reader (i suppose) like
> the following:
>
> missing ; before statement
>
> [image: Image removed by sender.]<!DOCTYPE WMT_MS_Capabilities SYSTEM
> "...s/wms/1.1.1/WMS_MS_Capabilities.dtd">
>
>
> So, finally my question: what am i doing wrong here? Or do i need to
> configure something else?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Kind regards,
>
> Hugo
>
> --
> Hugo Martins
> LabNT - ISEGI UNL
> Campus de Campolide
> 1070-312 Lisboa
> N 38°43'56.84", W 9°9'35.74"
>



-- 
Hugo Martins
LabNT - ISEGI UNL
Campus de Campolide
1070-312 Lisboa
N 38°43'56.84", W 9°9'35.74"
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