[Geoprisma-dev] Caching for the Proxy

[Yves Moisan]

> > for things to get cached.  At first, I tried to cache just TileCache,
> > but that did not seem to work.
> Could you please fill a ticket for this ?

In the end, I was looking at php-cgi calls that were MapServer related.
My mistake.  I see the right response headers.  Sorry for the noise.

> 
> 
> >   Anyhow, I didn't go into the code really
> > but if I set client-side caching like above, does it mean new edits in a
> > PostGIS table (served by MapServer) could go unnoticed for 2419200
> > seconds = 28 days ?  Nothing can tell Apache if something has changed
> > from what I can see, so it seems to me we'll have to tell users to clean
> > their cache often for layers they edit ...  
> >   
> In that case, you would use no caching for WMS only.
> 
> 
> > Eventually, I think caching should be a datastore option.
> This adds a lot of complexity in my opinion and should be avoided.  The 
> primary goal of caching is : performance.  Turning it on should come 
> with some minor drawbacks, such as having an edited layer unchanged on 
> the wms image but really changed on the vector side.

Right.  We'll see how it goes and I'll tell folks here to just cache TC.

Cheers,

Yves

> 
> My 2 cents,
> 
> Alexandre
>