WMS image cache?

[Bill Binko]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Ethan Alpert wrote:

> If the URL is truly the same wouldn't your browser cache it for you?

That depends entirely on the headers sent by Apache... the link in the
previous post is probably a good start, as is the (old) book Web Caching 
by O'Reilly.


> 
> -e
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Doug Cates
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:20 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WMS image cache?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know if it is possible to set up MapServer / Apache / Linux
> to 
> cache WMS GetMap requests? What I mean is that if MapServer receives the
> same 
> request as one recently sent from the same browser, that I'd like it to
> be 
> returned to the browser without re-processing and creating a new image.
> This 
> is for a real-time tracking application. Is it possible to set this up 
> server-side, or is this something that I'll need to do in my client 
> application?
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
>