Re: Redirection to Other IP Addresses

Agreed. Alt-Svc seems like a perfect fit for this case.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:05 AM Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
wrote:

> On 24.07.2019 01:32, Bin Ni wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We trying to propose an addition to the HTTP protocol to support
> > redirecting client to other IP addresses.
> >
> > The background is many website owners and CDN providers want the web or
> > proxy servers to be able to participate in load balancing. For example,
> > when the server is overloaded, redirect the request to some other
> > servers; or based on the geo information of client IP address, send the
> > client to a server that can provide better performance. Compare to the
> > DNS-based load balancing, this method is more real time and more
> > accurate. It can also take the URL, headers or other components in the
> > HTTP request into consideration.
> >
> > What they can use today is the 30X redirection, which has at least the
> > following limitations:
> > 1. breaks the cookie, if you 30x redirect to another hostname or IP
> address.
> > 2. breaks https if you redirect to another IP address.
> >
> > We need another way of telling the client/browser to only change the IP
> > address but keep everything else the same.
> >
> > We put the proposal in a google doc at:
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gtF6Nq3iPe44515BfsU18dAxfCYOvQaekiezK8FEHu0/edit?usp=sharing
> > You can post your questions and comment in the document or reply to this
> > email.
> > If this is not the correct way to submit a proposal, someone please
> > point me to the right direction.
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Bin Ni
> > www.quantil.com <http://www.quantil.com>
>
> Did you consider Alt-Svc? (See
> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7838.html>)
>
> Best regards, Jullian
>
>
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