[udig-devel] wms: image/png; mode=24bit

[Jesse Eichar]

The PrefeferenceInitializer in the WMS plugin has the list of  
acceptable formats.  You can add your types to that and test it out.

Jesse



On Sep 10, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Richard Gould wrote:

> I believe there is a preference in uDig that allows you to select
> which MIME type to use in the GetMap requests, but I think it is just
> a hard-coded list to choose from. This could be a datastore-based
> preference that reads the list from the capabilities - that would
> work, but would require a bit of implementation.
>
> Richard
>
> On 9/10/07, Tore Halset <halset at pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> "image/png" is the mime-type for png, but I want to offer both 8-bit
>> and 24 bit png from our wms. I wonder if this is possible by tweaking
>> the mime-type and if uDig would understand this.
>>
>> After googling this issue, I have found different ways to encode
>> this. "FORMAT=image/png8" and "FORMAT=image/png24" is one format.
>> Another is "FORMAT=image/png; mode=24bit". Does uDig handle any one
>> of those formats?
>>
>> If I implement this hack in our WMS we would of course still offer/
>> accept the standard "image/png" as probably most clients would prefer
>> that variant.
>>
>>   - Tore.
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