[Tilesathome] Request Priorities now sent to the client

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, spaetz wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 07:46:26PM +0200, Dirk St?cker wrote:
>> Then make the 1 --> 2 rewriting depending on the age of the tile?
>
> And what would apply in what case? make it 2 if the tile is older and 
> keep it at 1 if its a new one?

No. If the last tile is very old, then accept it at prio 1 even if you 
would change it to 2 automatically. But probably this is a theoretical 
question, when all the currently unrendered tiles are rendered at least 
once.

> I don't have a problem at introdocing 2500 more priority levels if that 
> makes people happy. I just fail to see the benefit. THere is no way to 
> "force bulk requests to be priority >10" as the server has no way of 
> differentiating between a bulk request and a person pressing r on one 
> tile in informationfreeway. the calls look the same.

Yes, that's why I would add such a bulk request. When using POST, then a 
larger number of request can be transported at once:
- Reduce server load due to lots of requests
- Automatically have a low priority

And a bit of programming/scripting is required thus reducing the misuse 
potential :-)

Ciao
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