GetCapabilitiesįor WMS services containing any time or elevation aware layers, the TIME or ELEVATION parameter can be added. You can get a WMS service's service-level metadata, a map image, or attribute values of a feature by sending a URL request to the server and viewing the corresponding responses in the browser as either an XML document or an image.īelow are some sample requests and responses for each operation supported by a WMS service. Unlike a standard web service, a SOAP client is not necessary for consuming a WMS service, and a web browser is the simplest client. The online resource of each operation supported by a compliant WMS server is an HTTP uniform resource locator (URL), so a WMS service can be considered as a Representational State Transfer (REST) service. You can use URL parameters to communicate with a WMS service in a web browser. Parameters of a WMS GetLegendGraphic request.
