- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:35:13 +0100 (MET)
- To: Paul Pazandak <pazandak@OBJS.com>
- cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Paul Pazandak wrote:
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) What is the policy for instantiating new HttpManagers?
>
> The docs seem very vague about this. It appears that an
> HttpManager can handle multiple simultaneous connections,
> so when and why would a new one be instantiated? In the
> general operation of a proxy will there usually be only
> one HttpManager for the life of the proxy?
>
There is no reason to instantiate a new one. The manager is in charge of
maintaining the physical connections and share then with all the clients.
So there is only one such manager started.
> 2) How does one tell when a request is part of another request?
>
> When a page is loaded, multiple objects may be retrieved.
> So, one could view a request as a composite request, containing
> several child requests. Is it possible to determine by inspecting
> a request/reply whether it is the composite request or one of
> the children? We'd also like to be able to differentiate (within
> a filter) completely independent requests (e.g. submitted by different
> browser windows).
The only way to have this information is to inspect the Referer header of
a request. If the browser is kind enough to fill it! Otherwise, as HTTP
is stateless, there are no way to detect this.
> Thanks!
>
> Paul.
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