[QGIS-Developer] QGIS WMS provider firing too many requests !?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 2/25/21 11:49 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 05:48, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>
>> I really like that Richard, since I am always in the
>> Settings/Options/CacheSettings to clear my cache anyway (as I am
>> constantly changing already-parsed WMS services), having a checkbox in
>> the "Content" tab of "Default prefetch WMS(T) images" (default to false)
>> makes sense.
> 
> Not sure if you're aware of this, but in 3.18 if you open the network
> logger panel via F12 there's a new option "disable cache" which will
> cause ALL requests to skip existing cached replies. It's intended to
> help with the exact use case you describe!

Thanks Nyall, 

indeed I also want to make sure (to Jeff) that the 'caching' and 'prefetching' thing is related but different beasts.
If you want to disable cache at all: 'disable cache', the PR is was speaking about was about prefetching surrounding mapcanvas images for WMS's.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde