Re: Multiplexing proxy gateway requests to backend servers

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> 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.

Really?  What proxies aggregates requests from multiple end clients?


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