[Chameleon] Does chameleon have a WMS CLIENT?

Roland G. roland at gisplan.com.br
Mon Nov 22 14:55:38 EST 2004


Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Chameleon uses PHP/Mapscript as its WMS client.
> 
> All interaction with WMS servers is operated through the PHP/Mapscript 
> php  module. So the client browser does not connect to WMS servers 
> directly,  the connection is made server-side.
> 
> Why do you want to access a WMS server directly?

Because I don't want to install and maintain another server. The idea is 
  for the client to be self-sufficient(it will need a WMS of course). If 
it needs another intermediary server you break this design.

Roland



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