SLD Temporary Files When Passing SLD url

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of John Fletcher
> Sent: Thursday, 09 December, 2004 16:50
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] SLD Temporary Files When 
> Passing SLD url
> 
> 
> It seems that for every request that I make to Mapserver with 
> an SLD= parameter, a temporary file is created in the same 
> directory as the mapfile, with an sld.xml extension.  The 
> contents of these sld.xml files are identical to the contents 
> of the SLD residing at the remote url as passed to Mapserver. 
>  Are these temporary sld files normally removed manually?  
> Have other people experienced the same behaviour?
>

Another question: can such files be processed as streams by MapServer,
as opposed to being stored on disk?
 
> I'm using Mapserver 4.4 release (kindly compiled by Howard Butler -
> thanks) on Windows 2000 and Apache.  I normally like to 
> figure these things out on my own, but couldn't find anything 
> about this one...
> 
> Thanks for the help, as always.
> 
> John
>