No MapScript mechanism to process POST requests when not using cgi

[mapserver-bot]

Reporter: warmerdam
Date: 2008/07/04 - 16:45
Trac URL: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2681
Currently in non-cgi mapscript environments (such as when using php or python as a loaded module in Apache), it is not possible to process post requests because there is no mechanism to push the posted xml document into the msio subsystem.

To implement this, we would need to actually implement the msIO_bufferRead()
function in mapio.c, and add a function to push data into this buffer
(something roughly like msIO_getStdoutBufferString() and
msIO_getStdoutBufferBytes() from mapscript/swiginc/msio.i but in the
opposite direction).

While I understand what needs to be done, I'm not prepared to spend the time doing it since the need seems somewhat limited.

[mapserver-bot]

Author: warmerdam
Date: 2008/07/04 - 16:47
NOTE: This issue only affects someone wanting to use POST requests to WxS
services from mapscript in a non-cgi environment (like mod_php or mod_python).

[mapserver-bot]

Author: tomkralidis
Date: 2008/07/04 - 16:53
Frank: feel free to ping me for testing/etc.

[mapserver-bot]

Author: keithmoss
Date: 2010/04/20 - 10:36
Ditto. If you want to work on implementing this I'm available for debugging and testing.

[mapserver-bot]

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[RousseauLambertLP]

I recently tested a WCS POST request in MapServer 7.6.2 with mapscript and it appears this issue is still valid.

Can I suggest we keep this issue open for a potential future fix ?

Thanks

[geographika]

@RousseauLambertLP - see #6345 - you should be able to do this using the master branch,

[RousseauLambertLP]

Nice thanks a lot, I didn't see that one :)