WCS XML POST body not to be prepended by "request="

[Piero Campalani]

Body of XML WCS requests need to be pure XML, and not 'request=<XML>'.

The system throws a BadPostParameter exception in case of pure XML bodies, but this inhibits WCS compliance.

[Dimitar Misev]

Piero, are you sure it will still work fine for requests from HTML forms (e.g. Earthlook)? I mean is this backwards compatible?

[Piero Campalani]

Yes, it still works with the 'request=' prefix:

$ wget --post-data "request=$( cat queries/02-describe_coverage.xml )" http://localhost:8090/petascope -O resp1.xml
$ wget --post-data "$( cat queries/02-describe_coverage.xml )"         http://localhost:8090/petascope -O resp2.xml
$ diff -s resp1.xml resp2.xml
Files resp1.xml and resp2.xml are identical
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I would deprecate this, but if this is strictly necessary for Earthlook then no big pain to keep it. With this ticket I meant to fix Petascope not to throw exception on the standard POST requests.

[Piero Campalani]

Fixed in changeset:994f190.