On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:08:26PM +0200, ??ukasz Jerna?? wrote:

> I think there could be a nice way to split the load between two or
> more servers, at least for serving tiles without much overhead. Does
> someone already work on it or should I'll try to do it?
> Anyway the idea is to make a small publish-subscribe API, so when a
> server gets new tiles from a client it sends a message to all
> subscribers with the appropriate coordinates and layers, which they
> download from the master server. To ease up bootstraping, they could
> issue a HTTP 307 or 300 code in case a requested tile isn't on it and
> download it in the background so no further redirects will be needed.
> Heck, this could even open up the way for region based servers...

Do you seriously propose to have all web clients that want to download tiles to 
subscribe to notices about where to download certai areas from?

I hope I misunderstood you there :-)

spaetz

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