[worldKit-dev] Problems displaying WMS imagery in WorldKit

[Jon Blower]

Thanks Mikel - it works now.  I wasn't aware of the new Flash security
restrictions.  Once I'd put my Worldkit on a webserver it all worked
fine.

Jon

On 2/19/07, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon
>
> http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/WK/visual/
> http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/WK/visual/config.xml
>
>
> You don't want to escape ampersands in the url. Enclose that value in a
> CDATA section to make it correct XML. Flash actually doesn't mind bare
> ampersands, so often I'm sloppy and create config.xml with badly formed XML.
>
>
> Running locally might be a problem too .. there are security settings in
> Flash which can prevent it from accessing remote sites.
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html
>
> Mikel
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jon Blower <jdb at mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk>
> To: worldkit-dev at lists.brainoff.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 5:03:03 PM
> Subject: [worldKit-dev] Problems displaying WMS imagery in WorldKit
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just discovered WorldKit and think it looks great.  I'm very
> interested in using it to display WMS imagery but I can't get my
> example WorldKit map to display images from any WMS that I've tried.
> I must be doing something silly - could someone please post a
> *complete* worldkit config file that contains a WMS layer that's known
> to work?  I've cut and paste lots of snippets but all I see is
> day.jpg.
>
> Is it important to escape ampersands in the WMS URL in the config file
> (e.g. ...wms.cgi?request=GetMap&layers=...)?  I've
> tried files
> with and without escaping with no luck.  I'm running worldkit off my
> local disk because I don't have access to an HTTP server at the moment
> - could this be causing problems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jon
>
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