Re: Multiplexing proxy gateway requests to backend servers
Graham Leggett <[email protected]>
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Ian Holsman wrote: > I was thinking of doing something like this for quite some time. > the only issues I can see are > keepalives.. > * do they handle things like cookies per request or per > connection? Servers don't handle cookies - they're just Yet Another Header. > * authentication Authentication happens on a per request basis, not per connection, so no problems there. > * handling of keepalive timeouts might be tricky > * ie.. do keepalives keep some state, I am never sure There is no state, no. The next request follows the previous, and each request has a well defined length (either using content-length, or chunked encoding) so the receiving end always knows when the previous request ended the the current began. Regards, Graham -- ----------------------------------------- [email protected] "There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight..."