[Qgis-user] WMS hangs sometimes, Timeouts

[Andreas Neumann]

no, unfortunately this is inhouse only, at the current time. Maybe next
year it will be available. Maybe we can test next time you meet us in
Uster.

Or I'll install the WMS on my laptop and bring it along to the Vienna
hackfest.

Andreas

On Tue, October 27, 2009 5:25 pm, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi Andreas
>
> Is there a public WMS where it is possible to reproduce the hangs?
> Maybe the browser has a different timeout setting and sends the request
> again
> after a certain time.
>
> Marco
>
> Am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 12.19:05 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I extensively use WMS to display raster data. The WMS is inhouse (in the
>> same LAN). Unfortunately, I experience timeouts quite frequently, in
>> average every 10 pan/zooms QGIS hangs, waits for 1-2 minutes and then
>> displays an error message about a HTTP-Exception, also displaying the
>> URL.
>> When I copy/paste the URL to a web-browser, the link just works fine and
>> loads immediately.
>>
>> The thing is that the WMS just works fine from other web-based
>> applications and never hangs. I wonder what may be wrong with the way
>> QGIS
>> retrieves the WMS results and why it may hang so frequently?
>>
>> We have a proxy to access the internet, but I added our own WMS as a
>> proxy
>> exception, so it shouldn't go through the proxy.
>>
>> Do other people have the same problems?
>>
>> I am testing with latest trunk builds on Windows XP and Linux. Similar
>> problems/results. The problem existed for a while with the trunk builds.
>>
>> Thanks for any hints on what we could do/try to resolve the issue. I
>> will
>> test the WMS with other clients (gvSig or uDig) to see if it hangs there
>> as well or not.
>>
>> Andreas
>
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