[mapserver-dev] Tile Access API

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

You could, but many times this is not set (i.e. I don't set this and let
MapServer derive the URL value -- more portable).

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of 
> bartvde at osgis.nl
> Sent: 16 April, 2008 9:58 AM
> To: Steve Lime
> Cc: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Tile Access API
> 
> Why not checking if
> ows_onlineresource/wms_onlineresource/wfs_onlineresource etc. 
> have been set?
> 
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:40:36 -0500, "Steve Lime"
> <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> > I think this is a good idea as well, one that we've talked about in 
> > the past with regards to OGC services. Perhaps an explicit 
> MAP-level 
> > tag or WEB-level metadata with a delimited list of 
> supported services:
> > 
> >   ALLOWED_SERVICES 'WMS,TILES,WFS:1.0;1.1'
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> >>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> 04/16/08 7:32 AM >>>
> > Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >> 
> >> The barn door is already wide open on this one, and is 
> already being 
> >> traversed, but clients like ArcExplorer over WMS, Google 
> Earth over 
> >> WMS, and as you note OpenLayers over WMS.  You put up a server, 
> >> egads, people use it!
> >> 
> >> A tile API is actually an improvement, since it's at least 
> trivially 
> >> easy to get proxy caching behavior within the constrained 
> URL space 
> >> provided by the tiling system.
> >> 
> > 
> > You've got good points, but I wonder if we should do something to 
> > protect our users who are not aware of the risk of their servers 
> > getting overloaded by those clients and limit the damage by having 
> > this feature disabled by default. If someone enables it 
> then they need 
> > to understand the risk and live with it, but at least those who are 
> > not prepared to deal with that kind of load are not exposed 
> by default.
> > 
> > I guess if we follow this logic we should disable all OGC 
> web service 
> > interfaces by default as well... maybe we should? What do 
> you all think?
> > 
> > Daniel
> >
> 
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