Time for action – limiting the SRS list from WMS
GeoServer supports a lot of SRSs and can also transform on-the-fly spatial features from one SRS to another. Sometimes this may be not what you want, for example, if you are going to publish data only in a few SRSs and want GeoServer to be heavily loaded from transformation requests. We will now learn how to limit the SRS list.
Note
Do you know an SRS is a spatial reference system? If you are not reading the book from start to end and this acronym sounds confusing, have a look at Chapter 1, GIS Fundamentals.
On your browser, open the WMS capabilities. This is the standard output for service description. It is an XML file containing data published, operations supported, and other details. Go to the main page of GeoServer's interface and click on the 1.3.0 link:
You should get a huge XML file. Scroll down to All supported EPSG projections. The following screenshot shows just a few of them; you now have an idea of how many there are!
Now go to the...
