[OpenLayers-Users] OT: wms-c

[Schuyler Erle]

* On  7-Nov-2006 at 10:07AM EST, Trond Michelsen said:
> 
> I'm a little bit confused. What does wms-c provide that you can't
> already do with a caching server like Varnish in front of the WMS, and
> a tile based client (like OpenLayers)?

If non-tiled clients start talking to your cache, it's going to fill
up pretty quick. Also, rounding issues and optional WMS parameters may
confound traditional caching techniques. Our WMS-C server
implementation seeks to work around all that.

SDE