OWS Services
GeoServer includes several types of OGC services like WCS, WFS and WMS, commonly referred to as "OWS" services. These services can be global for the whole GeoServer instance or local to a particular workspace. In this last case, they are called virtual services.
/services/wcs/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Coverage Service settings.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return global WCS settings | 200 | XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify global WCS settings | 200 | ||
| DELETE | 405 |
/services/wcs/workspaces/<ws>/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Coverage Service settings for a given workspace.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return WCS settings for workspace ws |
200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Create or modify WCS settings for workspace ws |
200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | Delete WCS settings for workspace ws |
200 |
/services/wfs/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Feature Service settings.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return global WFS settings | 200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify global WFS settings | 200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | 405 |
/services/wfs/workspaces/<ws>/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Feature Service settings for a given workspace.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return WFS settings for workspace ws |
200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify WFS settings for workspace ws |
200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | Delete WFS settings for workspace ws |
200 |
/services/wms/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Map Service settings.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return global WMS settings | 200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify global WMS settings | 200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | 405 |
/services/wms/workspaces/<ws>/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Map Service settings for a given workspace.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return WMS settings for workspace ws |
200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify WMS settings for workspace ws |
200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | Delete WMS settings for workspace ws |
200 |
/services/wmts/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Map Tile Service settings.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return global WMTS settings | 200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify global WMTS settings | 200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | 405 |
/services/wmts/workspaces/<ws>/settings[.<format>]
Controls Web Map Tile Service settings for a given workspace.
| Method | Action | Status code | Formats | Default Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | Return WMTS settings for workspace ws |
200 | HTML, XML, JSON | HTML |
| POST | 405 | |||
| PUT | Modify WMTS settings for workspace ws |
200 | XML,JSON | |
| DELETE | Delete WMTS settings for workspace ws |
200 |
Todo
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