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I have installed GeoServer 2.16.1 on two independent servers; but both are unable to translate layers to KML (Keyhole Mark-up Language). I receive the following content instead of the KML:

<ServiceExceptionReport version="1.1.1">
    <ServiceException code="InvalidSRS">
        Error occurred decoding the espg code EPSG:2908/kml?layers=nyc:nyc_buildings No code "EPSG:2908/KML?LAYERS=NYC:NYC_BUILDINGS" from authority "European Petroleum Survey Group" found for object of type "IdentifiedObject".
</ServiceException>
</ServiceExceptionReport>

Apparently, the server is trying to interpret "EPSG:2908/KML?LAYERS=NYC:NYC_BUILDINGS" as the EPSG code, instead of just "EPSG:2908".

The URL to generate the KML is:

localhost:8080/geoserver/nyc/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=nyc%3Anyc_buildings&bbox=983797.5%2C207443.0%2C991899.0625%2C218850.828125&width=545&height=768&srs=EPSG%3A2908/kml?layers=nyc:nyc_buildings

Any ideas on why this is happening?

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  • Please use the edit link to add more information to your question, we need to know what URL parameters you are using
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Jan 16, 2020 at 10:58
  • @IanTurton. Does this help? localhost:8080/geoserver/nyc/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=nyc%3Anyc_buildings&bbox=983797.5%2C207443.0%2C991899.0625%2C218850.828125&width=545&height=768&srs=EPSG%3A2908/kml?layers=nyc:nyc_buildings
    – Josep
    Commented Jan 16, 2020 at 11:02
  • Please use the edit link to add more information to your question - once it is edited it becomes eligible for reopening
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Jan 16, 2020 at 11:06
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    The KML output in the layer preview of GeoServer 2.16 is broken. See gis.stackexchange.com/questions/347107/…. However, you are getting the error from your own client, don't you?
    – user30184
    Commented Jan 16, 2020 at 12:05
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    I think that I answered already in gis.stackexchange.com/questions/347107/…. The question was a bit different, though.
    – user30184
    Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 13:12

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It's because you are not making a valid WMS request - try something like

localhost:8080/geoserver/nyc/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=nyc%3Anyc_buildings&bbox=983797.5%2C207443.0%2C991899.0625%2C218850.828125&width=545&height=768&srs=EPSG%3A2908&format=application/vnd.google-earth.kml+XML

or if you want to use the KML reflector which doesn't support changing the SRS.

localhost:8080/geoserver/nyc/wms/kml?layers=nyc:nyc_buildings
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  • I will try this request next Thursday. I don't have access to the server right now. But, anyway, the request is produced by GeoServer itself; so it must a bug of this particular version.
    – Josep
    Commented Jan 17, 2020 at 15:07
  • I have tried the requests on another GeoServer (same version). But they don't seem to be working. The server returns 'HTTP Status 404 – Not Found'. :(
    – Josep
    Commented Jan 17, 2020 at 15:17
  • Well. It did work on the server. The requests produced some XML, which looks like the desired result. Now I'm trying to sort out how these working URLs are generated, so I don't have to ask for help each time I want to generate one.
    – Josep
    Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 11:30
  • I up-vote your answer, because it helped bring light into the problem. But I believe it was user30184 who truly answered the question. Since I asked "why I can't..."; not "how could I manually fix...".
    – Josep
    Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 11:36
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Question already answered here: Unexpected GeoServer behaviour when doing quickstart examples: Error occurred decoding the espg code EPSG:4326/kml?layers=topp:states

There is a bug in this particular version of GeoServer (2.16.1).

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