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How can I save the results from a MapServer file as an image? I would like to be able to write a png file as a result of a query. My query which I can display in browser is the following:

http://mysite.com/mapserv.cgi?map=../../mapfiles/demo.map&layer=land&mode=map&FORMAT=image/png

I have tried the following (which does not seem to work):

wget http://mysite.com/mapserv.cgi?map=../../mapfiles/demo.map&layer=land&mode=map&FORMAT=image/png

and also

wget http://mysite.com/mapserv.cgi?map=../../mapfiles/demo.map&layer=land&mode=map&FORMAT=image/png >> myfile.png

I have seen the shp2img function but that appears to be used just for testing mapfiles. In this case I would like to use a SQL filter with my mapfile, which I don't think I can do using shp2img.

Included first wget attempt that I tried.

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I also asked this question on the MapServer mailing list, and Jukka Rahkonen suggested the following approach which fixed my problem:

Perhaps wget thinks that certain characters are cutting the URL string. Try wget "http://mysite.com/mapserv.cgi?map=../../mapfiles/demo.map&layer=land&mode=map&FORMAT=image/png" -O output.png

We have used wget a lot for downloading data from WCS so I guarantee you will make it work by reading documents and trying just like we did.

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  • The problem is that the shell interprets the & as the fork to background command, so wget sends only part of the url to the server.
    – unicoletti
    Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 15:08
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Just do: 

wget http://mysite.com/mapserv.cgi?map=../../mapfiles/demo.map&layer=land&mode=map&FORMAT=image/png

You are getting some wget log output in your image file. See the manual for other information about how wget works.

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  • That does not work for me. I get a file of this type mapserv.cgi?map=..%2F..%2Fmapfiles%2Fdemo.map. If I try renaming it to test.png it is not an image (I should have included this in my question as I had also tried it).
    – djq
    Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 14:33
  • I just tried it using GeoServer and it works for me.
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 14:35
  • what is in the file?
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 14:38
  • It turns out to be an error message mapserv(): Web application error. Traditional BROWSE mode requires a TEMPLATE in the WEB section, but none was provided. However, I can view it in my browser when I paste the same command in.
    – djq
    Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 14:41
  • so there's something wrong with your mapserver set up
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 14:42

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