- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:02:53 +0200
- To: Bin Ni <nibin@quantil.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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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