Milo, I have some .php code that is fairly well documented that does zooming on a map and caches the map at the max extent. If you zoom in, you create a unique map, but if you request a map whose extent covers >80% of the max extent, it defaults to using the cached image of the max extent.
Let me know if you are interested, and I'll send you the specific .php file... I think it is documented well enough to give you an idea of how I'm currently handling caching... matt -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregor Mosheh Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:53 AM To: MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] temp directory remain empty > Only problem is; specific client > software is accessing my wms and these clients do not support > tilecache or wms-c. Ahhh, I see. That's too bad then. > So the server will have to talk plain wms and some tricking has to be > done on the server to handle the request and pass it to the cache when > it is available. Fair enough. You'll have to use a Mapscript wrapper then (Python, Perl, PHP? up to you) which takes WMS-like arguments, checks for non-existence of an already-generated "tile", generates it if necessary, then serves up the tile in either case. Rolling your own, I guess, wouldn't be difficult at all. -- Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development & hosting services http://www.HostGIS.com/ "Remember that no one cares if you can back up, only if you can restore." - AMANDA
