[Merkaartor] WMS Server Italy

Fri Jul 16 13:51:25 BST 2010

And how long is this ban? More than one day?

> On the italian mailing list there are quite a few threads about
> problems with this server.
> I cannot tell whether it's the same problem you're having, but many
> users often receive a temporary ban from the server. It happened
> because the people who manage it did not expect such an increase of
> traffic and they fear we're stealing them their database... :-S
> 
> On 7/16/10, Michael <Michael.Koops at web.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i'm using the WMS Server from
> > http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/service/ortofoto_colore_06.map&
> >
> > But this server seems to have quite regularly problems with providing
> > the aerial photos of Italy.
> >
> > With Merkaartor I have the error feedback:
> > Other http code ( 403 ):  9
> > NETWORK_PIXMAP_ERROR:  "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML
> > 2.0//EN">
> > <html><head>
> > <title>403 Forbidden</title>
> > </head><body>
> > <h1>Forbidden</h1>
> > <p>You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
> > on this server.</p>
> > </body></html>
> >
> > Even with JOSM there are no pictures.
> >
> > Does anyone hve the same problem, or even a solution?
> >
> > Michael