Re: Multiplexing proxy gateway requests to backend servers

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

> eh; usually it's not an unreasonable assumption that one connection
> will have one client in the other end.  If the backend uses that for
> optimization it would break.

I assume you are talking about "end clients" or "user agents". In my
experience, such optimizations are extremely dangerous to the point of
being broken. There are many client-side proxies out there. A single
connection does not mean a single end client.

Alex.

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