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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.
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