Bug report #12606

URL format in request DescribeFeature, && in URL request.

Added by Peder Dalin over 9 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Web Services clients/WFS
Affected QGIS version:2.8.1 Regression?:No
Operating System:Windows Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:not reproducable
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:20726

Description

The WFS request DescribeFeature has two && in the URL request.

The generated URL from QGIS is
?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=name:layer&&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType

This is how the URL request should look like
?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=name:layer&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

seems fine here on QGIS master, example:

?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=DescribeFeatureType&typeName=area%3AEEZ_HIGHSEAS

#2 Updated by Peder Dalin over 9 years ago

Thanks for the answer.

I have done some more research in this case. The web request in the QGIS log and the actual HTTPwebrequest from QGIS does not match. If you use a trace program like Fiddler Web Debugger you will se the difference. In the fiddler trace request there is two && in the request.

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

Peder Dalin wrote:

Thanks for the answer.

I have done some more research in this case. The web request in the QGIS log and the actual HTTPwebrequest from QGIS does not match. If you use a trace program like Fiddler Web Debugger you will se the difference. In the fiddler trace request there is two && in the request.

I used Wireshark, there the URL shows ok.

#4 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 2.8.2 to Future Release - Lower Priority

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed
  • Resolution set to not reproducable

closing for lack of feedback.

#6 Updated by Andreas Wicht over 8 years ago

I was able to reproduce this issue.

I am on 2.12.3-Lyon sending an WFS Request and capturing it via tcpflow on Ubuntu 14.04.

1. GetCapabilities - OK

GET
[...]/MapServer/WFSServer?SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.0.0
HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 QGIS/2.12.3-Lyon
Connection: Keep-Alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en-US,*
Host: someserver

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:37:35 GMT

2. DescribeFeatureType - FAIL

GET
[...]/MapServer/WFSServer?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=NS:MyLayer&&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType
HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 QGIS/2.12.3-Lyon
Connection: Keep-Alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en-US,*
Host: someserver

HTTP/1.0 400 Missing HTTP version
in request:
Server: proxy 1.189
Content-Length: 197
Missing HTTP version in request: 'GET
[...]MapServer/WFSServer?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=NS:MyLayerREQU...

In this case it is a huge issue as the WFS Server is behind a proxy-server which only accepts valid (according to ogc) requests. Removing the double '&&' leads to a successful request.

I highly suggest to evaluate this issue again.

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