Bug report #20549
QGIS SERVER - error in parsing WMS GetFeatureInfo as XML
Status: | Closed | ||
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Priority: | Normal | ||
Assignee: | Alessandro Pasotti | ||
Category: | QGIS Server | ||
Affected QGIS version: | 3.4.1 | Regression?: | No |
Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | fixed/implemented |
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 28369 |
Description
Don't know if it's a real bug, but it's something I'd like to be fixed for my own application.
I use to parse the GetFeatureInfo request as XML with the ".responseXML" method.
I am receiving this error:Errore interpretazione XML: tag corrispettivo mancante. Previsto: </meta>.
It seems the missing closing </meta> tag is causing this.
A testing URL for the request looks like this:
https://www.wondermap.it/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?&map=/home/ubuntu/qgis/projects/Demo_sci_WMS/demo_sci.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetFeatureInfo&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&QUERY_LAYERS=domini%20sciabili&LAYERS=domini%20sciabili&INFO_FORMAT=text%2Fhtml&I=50&J=50&CRS=EPSG%3A3857&STYLES=&WIDTH=101&HEIGHT=101&BBOX=1128900.381669475%2C5866529.499870181%2C1129865.3991515755%2C5867494.517352281
Associated revisions
[server] Fix invalid xml in getfeatureinfo
Fixes #20549 - error in parsing WMS GetFeatureInfo as XML
Also s/meta/META/ for consistency with all other tags
History
#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 6 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
No error here with the provided URL.
#2 Updated by Umberto Minora about 6 years ago
There's no error in the GetFeatureInfo request.
But if you look in the source (view-source:https://www.wondermap.it/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?&map=/home/ubuntu/qgis/projects/Demo_sci_WMS/demo_sci.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetFeatureInfo&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&QUERY_LAYERS=domini%20sciabili&LAYERS=domini%20sciabili&INFO_FORMAT=text%2Fhtml&I=50&J=50&CRS=EPSG%3A3857&STYLES=&WIDTH=101&HEIGHT=101&BBOX=1128900.381669475%2C5866529.499870181%2C1129865.3991515755%2C5867494.517352281) you'll notice that the <meta> tag is not closed.
This is fine from HTML point of view, but not in XML.
if you make (as I do) an XML HttpRequest and try to change the response to XML (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/responseXML), it will fail.
#3 Updated by Umberto Minora about 6 years ago
The reason why I am using responseXML is to catch WMS Exception (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/51723660/1979665).
#4 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 6 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Open
#5 Updated by Uroš Preložnik about 6 years ago
Umberto Minora wrote:
This is fine from HTML point of view, but not in XML.
if you make (as I do) an XML HttpRequest and try to change the response to XML (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/responseXML), it will fail.
If you need response in XML, why not just ask it with INFO_FORMAT=text/xml instead of text/html.
#6 Updated by Umberto Minora about 6 years ago
Uroš Preložnik wrote:
If you need response in XML, why not just ask it with INFO_FORMAT=text/xml instead of text/html.
Because not all WMS accepts INFO_FORMAT=text/xml.
For example, Mapserver has default text/plain (https://mapserver.org/uk/ogc/wms_server.html#web-object-metadata).
I know it's not a big deal, but it's just to be cleaner in the response and allowing clients to be able to convert the server response to XML without getting this error. Again, I don't think it can be defined as bug though, it might be more a feature request.
#7 Updated by Alessandro Pasotti about 6 years ago
- Status changed from Open to In Progress
- Assignee set to Alessandro Pasotti
#8 Updated by Anonymous about 6 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset qgis|0d696ef1e5a412968b1566d5150f4b0bcb6f6365.
#9 Updated by Umberto Minora about 6 years ago
Thank you Alessandro, will test it soon!
#10 Updated by Umberto Minora almost 6 years ago
Anyway, if I have installed qgis-server using the deb package, should I wait for the next release before I can test it?
#11 Updated by Alessandro Pasotti almost 6 years ago
Yes, unless you test the nightly builds or a docker image built from a recent master
#12 Updated by Umberto Minora almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from Closed to Reopened
Don't know if I miss anything but I updated qgis-server to 3.4.2 expecting to see the closing meta tag resolved, but I seem to still have the same error.
From here I see this fix was included in the last release:https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/compare/final-3_4_2...master. However, looking at the GetFeatureInfo response of my WMS it seems the same as before: (view-source:https://www.wondermap.it/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/home/ubuntu/qgis/projects/Demo_sci_WMS/demo_sci.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetFeatureInfo&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&QUERY_LAYERS=domini_sciabili&LAYERS=domini_sciabili&INFO_FORMAT=text%2Fhtml&I=50&J=50&CRS=EPSG%3A3857&STYLES=&WIDTH=101&HEIGHT=101&BBOX=1162989.3853589566%2C5840094.709100607%2C1170709.5252157594%2C5847814.848957409).
I tried to clear the cache, update QGIS DESKTOP and replacing the former qgs project on the server with the one saved with the newer (3.4.2) version, but still the same result.
Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any feedback.
#13 Updated by Alessandro Pasotti almost 6 years ago
I wasn't backported to 3.4, it will be in 3.6
#14 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 6 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed/implemented
- Status changed from Reopened to Closed