[mapserver-users] WMS Speed vs Direct URL

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 4/7/2012 5:11 PM, Andrew Revering wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone knows why WMS is SOOO much faster when I am
> loading my maps through a map (OpenLayers) than it is when I just try to
> pull a single tile directly through my brower and a WMS url?
>
> It seems like the server takes forever when I just enter a WMS URL into
> my browser's address bar, but when I load the same WMS map through
> OpenLayers its so much faster, despite loading all those seperate tiles
> individually instead of just the one I'm requesting in the browser.
>
> Any ideas?

Browser caching maybe?

-Steve