Hi,
I just had someone from outside my LAN test my demo web solution which uses one wms service as background for an inmemory layer of drawing shapes. He is routed in to my webserver, but the wms resides on another server (on the LAN) that's inaccessable to him. He experiences that the wms layer disappears.
Which leads me to assume that the wms request itself is pushed to the OpenLayers client for rendering, rather than being rendered server side. Is this assumption correct ?
I cannot find any setting in WmsOverlay that will allow me to force server side rendering, so I'll post this option as a feature request here.
Server side rendering of wms layers can be necessary for security reasons, and for routing reasons, e.g. if one maintains multiple virtual machines connected by an internal network, with only a few "fronts" being exposed to the user via another network.
Thanks