WFS client and caching

Bart van den Eijnden bartvde at XS4ALL.NL
Tue Mar 8 08:02:08 EST 2005


Hi Daniel,

I have opened up bug 1276 for further discussion.

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1276

Best regards,
Bart

> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I just noticed something strange using Mapserver WFS client.
>>
>> If I use HTTP GET for communicating with the Mapserver WFS, then
>> requesting the same map again does not result in a new GML file being
>> downloaded (ie read from cache).
>>
>> But using HTTP POST everytime a new GML file is downloaded for the same
>> extent.
>>
>> Using Mapserver 4.4.1.
>>
>> Is this a bug? Or fixed already in CVS?
>>
>
> Hi Bart,
>
> I'll let Assefa comment on this, but I think this is a limitation of the
> current WFS caching implementation. We had discussed ways to handle POST
> as well, but that may not have been implemented. Perhaps you could file
> a bug?
>
> Daniel
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