[OpenLayers-Users] WFS connection

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 07:02:46PM -0500, Richie Pierce wrote:
> I have just recently downloaded OpenLayers and am extremely exited about
> working with it.  I have customized one of the examples and added my own
> WMS layer.  Now I am trying to connect to our ArcIMS WFS connector.  I
> have followed the example WFS.html but am not having any luck.  Any help
> would be great.
Richie:

There's a bit of an undocumented aspect of the WFS layer: specifically,
that URLs are by default passed through a proxy layer, because there is
no way to access sites on a remote server via Javascript.

If you are running this under the www.geostor.arkansas.gov domain name,
this is not neccesary: Simply add a line, before your 'var g2_counties',
which says:

  OpenLayers.ProxyHost = '';

If you're not running under that domain name, however, you'll need to
use a proxy script. There is an example proxy script in the examples
directory, called proxy.txt: Copy this file to 'proxy.cgi' in some
location on your webserver that can run CGI scripts. Then do something
similar to:

  OpenLayers.ProxyHost = '/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?';

If this does not work, and your demo is accessible on the internet,
please respond and include a link to your demo so that I can further
investigate the issue.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer