Re: usability of 100-continue, was: HTTP2 Expression of Interest : Squid

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:35:00PM -0500, Zhong Yu wrote:
> > What are the reasons for such great efforts to keep connection alive
> > when a 100-continue fails? Is it really a big deal to drop connections
> > once in a while?
>
> Some webservice clients make extensive use of Expect: 100-continue over
> connection pools to avoid sending useless data and to keep the connections
> open. In fact, we're realizing that in the end it does not work (unless
> chunked encoding is used).
>
>
+1 .. I've had similar experience. It's one of those things that sounds
great in theory but in practice it just doesn't work effectively... at
least not well enough to justify it's use.

- James


> In the end, these WS clients might as well not send Expect and save one
> round trip and one packet in each direction since the only benefit of
> it goes away in case of failure, which is the only reason for using
> Expect.
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>
>