tomay

There are a bunch of reasons why this is convoluted, mostly in building the URL to make the request:

1. You have to rely on an AJAX request, this example uses jQuery
2. To make a GetFeatureInfo request, you must provide a BBOX for a image, and the pixel coordinates for the part of the image that you want info from. A couple of squirrely lines of Leaflet code can give you that.
3. Output formats. The info_format parameter in the request. We don't know a priori which will be supported by a WMS that we might make a request to. See Geoserver's docs for what formats are available from Geoserver. That won't be the same from WMS to WMS, however.
4. WMS services return XML docs when there's a mistake in the request or in processing. This sends an HTTP 200, which jQuery doesn't think is an error.

tomay

L.Mask = L.Rectangle.extend({
	options: {
		stroke: false,
		color: '#333',
		fillOpacity: 0.5,
		clickable: true,

		outerBounds: new L.LatLngBounds([-90, -360], [90, 360])
	},