[mapserver-users] MapCache: Disabling WMS requests for fully-seeded caches?

[thomas bonfort]

You can do this by commenting out the <source> block from the tileset
once the wanted tiles have been created. You'll probably also want set
error reporting to return blank images from that stage onwards.

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thomas

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 00:09, John Taranu
<jtaranu at firstbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> We have a fully seeded cache that was fully seeded to a polygon outline.
> The intent is to serve the tileset through a variety of services (WMS, TMS)
> using mod-mapcache.
>
>
>
> Tiles that are outside the polygon outline but still within the polygon
> bounding box should be blank tiles.  However, a request for one of these
> tiles results in a call to that tileset’s WMS source.  This creates
> considerable overhead by starting up MapServer and writing the resulting
> tile to the cache.  Is there any way to disable the WMS calls for these
> blank tiles, and instead short-circuit the request to return a blank?  That
> is, once a tileset has been fully seeded, is it possible to disable any
> further calls to the WMS, so that requests for tiles that are not in the
> cache return a blank?
>
>
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