Sally's Summit Summary

[Bill Binko]

(I hate being an idiot...)

Below, it should be "it does NOT need a caching system...."

Hope I didn't confuse too many
Bill

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Bill Binko wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Steve Lime wrote:
> 
> > We did talk about squid and certainly that is an option that many might
> > use. That said it's another piece of software for someone to manage and
> > install so it might not be available in all cases. MapServer caching
> > could be a fallback in those cases. This also addresses a problem with
> > unique image names and mod_php...
> 
> Not to jump in here, but if this is bug 1322, it does need a caching 
> system to solve it.  It simply needs a simpler, more secure method of 
> naming temp files (mkstemp on Unix and GetTempFileName on Windows are most 
> likely).  Daniel and I had discussed killing this one right after 4.6.
> 
> Not that caching images in Mapserver is a bad idea (caching individual 
> layers could be a huge improvement that can't be done in squid).
> 
> Bill
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