Sally's Summit Summary

[Steve Lime]

You're correct, you don't need caching, just a better filenaming method. If that
method could be tied to input parameters then caching would be trivial to add...

Steve

>>> Bill Binko <bill at binko.net> 06/21/05 10:40 AM >>>
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