[Tilecache] agg support

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:03:01AM -0500, Simon Cantem wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com] 
> 
> > They should return the same result, but that doesn't neccesarily mean
> > that it's not producing agg. TileCache ignores the format parameter
> (all
> > parameters besides Request, Service, BBOX and layers, actually).
> 
> > Watch your Apache logs when your run TileCache with a cleared cache.
> > Open the /cgi-bin/mapserv URL that TC is hitting. View it in a
> browser,
> > and tweak the URL until it looks how you want, then tweak  your
> > TIlecache config to match.
> 
> > Since TC sends a 'format=image/'+self.extension, it's possible that
> this
> > is overriding your earlier ?format=. I would advise configuring your
> > AGG/PNG24 IMAGEFORMAT to be the only image format with a mimetype of
> > "image/png" as a possible solution. (I think that's what I did.)
> 
> 
> Yep you're right, there was a second parameter being passed specifying
> image/png, when I copy this URL and remove the offending parameter it
> works fine. I'm not too sure how to make the AGG/PNG24 imageformat the
> only one with a PNG mimetype, I've tried setting the name of the AGG
> output format to image/png but that didn't help. I've tried looking
> through the mapserver reference forcing the output of a particular
> format, but can't find anything on that either. Any pointers on where I
> can look for more info?


http://boston.freemap.in/basemap.map is a mapfile I've used with agg.
Note the     mimetype "image/png" on the AGG OUTPUTFORMAT . I think
that's what you're looking for. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta