[ka-Map-dev] [PATCH] Tiles caching bugfix

[Luper Rouch]

Hello,

I had issues with tiles being excessively cached by my browser : I'm
writing a simple web based MapServer editor, and I had to reload the
ka-map frame to see the newly generated tiles after every change.

Examining the headers sent by apache for static files it appeared that
Cache-Control and Expires were never sent, only Etag. So I tried to
replace these headers with a single Last-Modified in tile.php and
obtained the desired behavior : the tiles are fetched from the browser's
cache until their modification time actually changes in the ka-map cache.

Note that adding the Last-Modified header was not sufficient, Expires
and Cache-Control made the browser ignore it and had to be removed. I'm
not sure if this is a browser bug or the normal behavior defined by the
standard (tested with firefox 2.0.3).

The attached patch has been made on the current CVS head.

Cheers,
Luper Rouch

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