Re: Redirection to Other IP Addresses

Thanks for your comments Patrick.
For whoever finds this proposal interesting, backward compatibility should
not be an issue.
The benefits should be way greater than the "burden" of checking client
capability.

Bin

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 6:13 AM Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> wrote:

> Use of Alt-Svc instead of Location in a 3xx makes some sense to me for
> this very edge case of a single large xfer. Server side resource balancing
> is an important property, and if you have some really big resources it can
> really make the system unresponsive and paying the latency penalty that
> alt-svc normally avoids might be worth the cost... avoiding the state where
> you have the same resource under a lot of different URIs is a good goal.
>
> Its going to be hard to bootstrap in a backwards compatible way though
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:11 AM Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, at 19:56, Bin Ni wrote:
>> > Hi Martin,
>> >
>> > I explained this in my very first email:
>> > 3xx breaks cookie and https.
>>
>> You can give the second server a discrete name (so that it can use HTTPS)
>> and you can pass any state it requires in the URL (obviating the need for
>> using cookies to pass state).
>>
>>

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