[OpenLayers-Users] WMS request timeout during zoom/pan/resize

[Jon Britton]

Hi Heiko,

How are you serving your WMS layers?  Can't you just use tiling in
OpenLayers and cache the tiles on the server (like GeoWebCache)?  This
should solve your resizing problems and your slow rendering...

Jon

On 11 May 2010 09:10, Heiko Schröter <schroete at iup.physik.uni-bremen.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we have several WMS Layers some  of which are expensive (in machine cycles)
> to render raster images. We do observe that each time the Browser Window is
> rezised or the user pans/zooms a WMS request is generated for every
> zoom/pan/resize level.
>
> Is there a possibility in OpenLayer to supress the rerendering or the newly
> generated WMS requests till the zoom/pan/resize comes to a halt for certain
> period of time ?
>
> The situation now could bust the server if someone has a nervous hand on
> the mouse ...
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Heiko
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