[QGIS-Developer] Make QGIS-Server more modular and specialized?

[Matthias Kuhn]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:20 PM Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:02 PM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Another scenario would be to have a specialized server only for GetPrint
> requests. Those are often quite resource intensive (because of higher dpi
> requests) and it would make sense, at a larger  installation - to have
> dedicated instances for GetPrint only.
>
> This is a different story, because GetPrint is not a service by itself
> but is part of a WMS request.
>
> I don't think we want to have that granularity, but in case you need
> it, a simple filter Python plugin is perfectly capable of
> denying/allowing a request based on the incoming URL.
>

to add to what Alessandro proposed, for a case like this you could also
consider a reverse proxy to delegate this to a dedicated print server so if
intense printing is going on, other servers still have resources for
regular map requests.

Matthias
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