Another idea, if it is indeed browser caching, you could try putting another arg on the end of the wms requests to make them different, say a counter for example. Geoserver will ignore it but it will ensure the URLs are always different and may stop the browser caching it.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom (JDi Solutions)</b> <<a href="mailto:tom.dean@jdi-solutions.co.uk">tom.dean@jdi-solutions.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Not sure what to actually do about it but could it be that the tiles are being cached by the browser? In my experience browser caching can be unpredictable at best especially when you consider that corporate content filters / firewalls and proxies also often have caching features. There are ways to set the headers on files to tell the browser not to cache it but they are not reliable. Maybe OpenLayers / Geoserver has a clever way around this? One way you could possibly improve things is to set your overlay to be non tiled, that way the requests will almost always be different and the browser won't cache them.
<div><span class="e" id="q_114a183514265800_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonke</b> <<a href="mailto:jonke@bt.nu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<br>I really like openlayers.<br><br>However I have problem with the automatic refresh of a overlay (that is a<br>layer that is not a baselayer).<br>I have read thorough all the examples and I especially the one with the
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Webcam.<br><br>However I start by describing the setup.<br><br>I have a baselayer (a big one with many layers in it served by GeoServer)<br>changes very rare.<br><br>I have a almost realtime dataset with 1 000 000 items, changes very
<br>frequently (300 000 changes every 30s), this is setup as a transperent<br>overlay with the isbaselayer: false. ( We can call this layer for overlay)<br><br>Both the baselayer and overlay have the tiled attribute set (not a
<br>tiledcache as a backend but just a vanilla geoserver).<br><br><br>When I scroll and pan and use the zoomin zoomout with the Mouse, the overlay<br>is properly refreshed and everything is fine.<br><br>When I try to do this javascript wise to get a "automatic refresh" (with a
<br>map.setCenter or layer.moveTo and the forcezoom to true), then I only see<br>the old overlay that seems to have been cached somewhere (and it is not by<br>the geoserver). I have tried different things, "zoomOut();zoomIn();" and
<br>"removelayer(overlay);addlayer(overlay)" with no luck.<br><br>Could it be that the layers are tiled and as long as I am in the same tile a<br>new request to the geoserver is not spawned?<br><br>I've read the openlayers source but I can't pinpoint where the decision to
<br>retrieve or not retrieve data from the geoserver is done.<br><br>I tried to remove the tiled attribute for the overlay but that seem to do<br>not what I intended but to download a very large tile of my overlay and<br>
still not updateing using center, moveto.<br><br>But here comes the 'scratch my head' part, if I with firefox open two tabs<br>to the same url where my openlayers are and switch back and fort between<br>them, then the center method works with both layers having the tiled
<br>attribute. If I stay in one tab I don't see any change of my overlay, if I<br>go to the next tab the overlay is refreshed and then I go back to the first<br>tab the overlay is refreshed.<br><br>If someone can point me to the "right way" todo this with many geometries I
<br>will gladly test another approach.<br><br>Regards.<br>--<br>View this message in context: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Overlay-dont-%22refresh%22-with-setcenter-forcezoom.-tf4327410.html#a12324516" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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