WMS capabilities from file?

[Eijnden, B. van den (Bart)]

Hi list,

we all know a WMS GetCapabilities response can take a long time to be
generated, which can be problematic for client applications working
real-time on the GetCapabilities interface. Therefore a lot of vendors
(ESRI, Ionic) store the WMS capabilities response on file.

I think it would be a good idea for Mapserver to support this as well. It
could be as simple as adding a new METADATA at the WEB level called
wms_capabilities_file (or maybe also include the WMS version in the name of
the metadata?). If this exists, Mapserver will return the file, if it does
not exist, it will generate dynamically.

What do others think?

Best regards,
Bart


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