Hi Steve,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Stateful Web Services
:
> The weakness of cookies is they are transport specific and very dependent
> upon implementations of HTTP, some particular weak implementations
> (java.net.HttpUrlConnection) handle cookies badly (it used to let you set
>1
> cookie, but them someone fixed it in 1.3 to stop you doing that).
>
> but I like them as they are simple, integrate well with the server, and
> integrate with load balancing level seven routers, things like ArrowPoints
> that make sure that requests to a cluster go back to the previous server,
> provided it is still happy.
This is one of the reason why I think it's useful using the cookie based
session management on the HTTP protocol bindings, currently.
> I dont see any soap header aware routers around, and given the lack of a
> standard header that isnt surprising, ignoring the details of how hard it
> would be to buffer and route inbound messages without actually parsing
bits
> of them.
Here is the additional info:
<http://www.f5.com/f5/news/press/release102102A.html>
Regards,
Toshiyuki Kimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
R&D Headquarters
NTT DATA Corp.
