Simple question

[Sylvain Beorchia]

That's right, but by doing this way, can you retreive an image url on the
client side ?
I mean, in my application i need to reference the generated image map from
two different places....so i need an url...

thanks .
Sylvain.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Sohr" <jms4 at PO.CWRU.EDU>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Simple question


> This is my personal opinion, but I think the best way to get rid of the
> temporary images is to never create them in the first place.
>
> You can configure the mapserver CGI executable to output just a map image
> straight to the web browser (intead of it generating a temp image and
> outputting an HTML file).  You can then use a plain HTML (or PHP or
> whatever other language you'd like) page that wraps around the image and
> is responsible only for passing paramaters to the MapServer CGI and
> updating the map image.
>
> Thus, you create no temp images, and there is no need to reload the whole
> page to update the map-- you only need to reload the map image.
>
> This is how most of the major map websites do it...
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:26:58 +0200, luca marletta <lucamarle at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
>>Till now I've no experience with a real mapserver live application on
>>a 24/7 server and, maybe I lost some passage, but I'm wondering if
>>there is a simple and easy way to get rid of all images that fill the
>>images directory.
>>
>>Sorry if is a very silly question but I miss this point
>>
>>Thanks in advance or your help
>>
>>luca
>>--
>>luca marletta  icq: 70590647