On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:37:54AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:46:48PM +0100, Gilles Bassière wrote: > > I was recently confronted to the same problem. I needed a cached WMS, > > although on some occasion I would need to perform untiled map requests. > > Of course, it would have been much easier to send tiled and untiled > > request to a single front server. > > > > My idea was to hack TileCache. Indeed, TileCache already has WMS request > > support et grid calculation and cache and so on. When the requested > > extent/size does not match the tile grid, TileCache returns an error. I > > guess it would be possible to catch this error. Then, instead of > > returning the error to the client, it should be possible to forward the > > request to the rendering back-end and return the resulting image to the > > client (without storing it in the cache). I'm not sure whether this > > could be possible with all back-end. > > At this time, yes, in the future, no.
I should qualify/explain this: one of my short term goals is to allow for requesting tiles in TileCache from a backend TMS service (making TIleCache a proxy, of sorts), which would mean that you could only request along the pre-built grid. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss