[Tilecache] Quick panning with overlays

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:24:19AM -0500, Yves Moisan wrote:
> 
> > And for OpenLayers specifically:
> > 
> >   http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/multiserver.html
> > 
> > This only has a base layer -- I would recommend using one set of
> > hostnames for base layers, and one for overlays (2 and 2 would make four
> > total). 
> 
> Thanx Chris.  Looking at my .cfg file, I see 

This is unrelated. IT's not about the TileCache connection to the WMS,
but the OpenLayers connection to the TileCache. (TileCache isn't limited
by the browser restrictions.)

-- Chris

> [Ikonos]
> type=WMS
> layers=Ikonos
> srs=EPSG:900913
> bbox=-19000000,-8000000,19000000,19000000 
> ...
> url=http://123.123.123.123/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=../../www/WEB-INF/classes/module/maps/OpenLayers-2.6/maps/brasil.map
> ...
> 
> Does the url with hardcoded IP have any unwanted effect ?  That is,
> given I have a bunch of hostnames in my html file as in the example you
> point to, does the harcoded IP address in the url parameter in my cfg
> file defeat the very purpose of having multiple hosts ?  My guess is
> that it doesn't.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Yves
> 
> 

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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