[QGIS-Developer] QGIS WMS provider firing too many requests !?

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2021-02-26 4:53 a.m., Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 2/25/21 11:49 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 05:48, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I really like that Richard, since I am always in the
>>> Settings/Options/CacheSettings to clear my cache anyway (as I am
>>> constantly changing already-parsed WMS services), having a checkbox in
>>> the "Content" tab of "Default prefetch WMS(T) images" (default to false)
>>> makes sense.
>>
>> Not sure if you're aware of this, but in 3.18 if you open the network
>> logger panel via F12 there's a new option "disable cache" which will
>> cause ALL requests to skip existing cached replies. It's intended to
>> help with the exact use case you describe!
> 
> Thanks Nyall,
> 
> indeed I also want to make sure (to Jeff) that the 'caching' and 'prefetching' thing is related but different beasts.
> If you want to disable cache at all: 'disable cache', the PR is was speaking about was about prefetching surrounding mapcanvas images for WMS's.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde
> 

Hi Richard,

I am aware that caching and prefetching are very different, I was just 
giving an example of accessing the settings.  Sorry to mention that, 
which caused so many responses.  Carry on :)

/me a humbled user

-jeff



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