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Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
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Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:55:35 -0500
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Re: SRV records - when?
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> writes: Daniel> mechanism to achieve this. Note that MANY web sites that include shopping Daniel> functionality rely on this today. If there's no solution to this with SRV, Daniel> then I see little incentive for anyone in web services to bother adopting Daniel> SRV into web clients. The web sites would still have to run stateful Daniel> balancers to ensure a given client ALWAYS maps to the same server, or else Daniel> the user's shopping cart could easily be on a server in chicago and when Daniel> they try to check out, the secure server they get routed to in Miami has no Daniel> idea of the cart contents. Well, this is the result of bogus web site design. The web server in Chicago can simply give *its own address* in when they are referred to the HTTPS web server. The whole stateful load balancer nightmare is because nobody with a clue has taken web designers, hosting people and customers and put them in the same room for half an hour. Not surprising, the hosting and web designers stand to lose here to everyone else's benefit. ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another NetBSD/notebook using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [