== Spatialcache ==
 
Description:
Spatialcache is a cache server written entirely in python.
It has been designed to be flexible and powerful.

Flexible:
Even it has been designed to work with a WMS as backend, it can be used beyond this scope without any trouble.
You can use it as a general purpose cache if you want.
Think of it as a small squid, that show it's true power when serving WMS requests.

Powerful:
The multithreaded architecture makes it safe and scalable.
GET request have been optimized to be incredibly fast.
POST requests allows you to seed different zoom levels of a given request adding only a single param (Ex.: ZOOM=1,3,5-8).
DELETE requests are used to clean folders using params filters hierarchy that you have defined.


Before you start:
Some basic knowledge about WMS and HTTP is assumed.

Getting started:
1. Download the last stable version from the website. (http://code.google.com/p/spatialcache)
2. Unpack the file named spatialcache-x.x.tar.gz
3. Set the path to your WMS in configuration.xml
4. Start the server "python spatialcache.py -c configuration.xml"

Requirements:
Python >= 2.5

Recomended:
Installing Psyco will make the server run faster.