[thredds] WMS servers side image cache
Hi, I'm playing around with using Thredds WMS using a tiling scheme
similar to google maps and I was wondering if there was a way (or
something that could be added in the future) to cache WMS maps from the
thredds servlet? Since I'm using tiles, the requests are identical. I
was thinking thredds would be able to hash (say md5) the request url and
write the image to temporary folder. On the second request thredds would
look in the cache based on the hash, and return the image if its there
otherwise generate a new image. Thredds would likely need to wipe the
cache on a restart in case the data changed.
Using IDL I wrote some code that downloaded all the tiles at all levels
for a particular dataset, but it took about 12 hours to run and
generated 400,000+ tiles for only one variable. If thredds cached images
it would be a more "on demand" approach rather than trying to pre
generate millions of tiles. In the tiled world, caching would say a lot
of server side processing (especially for high resolution datasets) and
speed up the user experience.
-Jay Alder
