General
The Image Server is a CGI-script that provides pictures in various dimensions.
Features
- request with arbitrary bounding box
- original picture ratio is maintained
- delivering and caching of pictures in dimensions of a certain raster.
- picture fits into bounding box (no dimension will be larger, but can be smaller)
- picture is just scaled down
- allow browser side caching, even for different bounding boxes (using redirection)
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