[geeks] Makes me so mad...

[Chris Byrne]

I don't think the explanation given in the article is correct because it
doesn't account for session management or transmission sequencing.
Without some creative playing with load/connection distribution logic
you can't maintain a single connection across multiple paths and
multiple destinations, and even if you could the TCP sequence numbers
are going to be totally out of whack, which should cause a reset anyway.


Unless that is the stack is poorly writeen... Which is of course the
case, but I don't know if its poorly wroitten in that specific way.

Plus most any real firewall or proxy server would vomit on seeing the
malformed http request from a client (at either end). It would
completley screw up any stateful inspection firewall, and wouldn't work
with a proxy anyway snese the proxy would undoubtedly make a fully
qualified connection to the web server, with preamble etc...

That being said, it is entirely possible that the backend (presentation
and application layer) logic and buffers within the httpd arent being
reset. In fact that would make sense, and arguably would be a case of
good programming practice for efficient resource mangement, which has
never really been a priority at MS (actually not completely true but
ever since they decided to compromise the HAL for NT3.51 it has been)

Chris Byrne - (Currently rocking out to Iron Maidens fear of the dark,
picked up for $5.00 at a local store) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bradford
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 20:44
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Makes me so mad...
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:44:23PM -0800, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > If this Slashdot.org link is true, it pisses me off, but 
> what to do... 
> > I can't explain to anyone that it is such abad thing, esp. 
> if you are 
> > a MS-only shop... http://grotto11.com/blog/slash.html?+1039831658
> 
> AFAIK isnt this just Http keepalive, part of the HTTP 1.1 spec?
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> bill bradford
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> austin, texas
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