The ows command is used to access OGC Web Services from the Express Server.
The ows command may be invoked in several ways.
The following returns the WMS capabilities document:
ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities
The following returns image data corresponding to the parameters of the GetMap call:
ows?service=WMS&request=GetMap&<parameters>
The following gets the WMS capabilities offered by the specified server:
http://demo.lizardtech.com/lizardtech/iserv/ows?service= WMS&request=GetCapabilities