Brian McBarron wrote: > These aren't a problem, as long as the front-end redirector is able > to select targets according to the Resumable-POST Etag as well as the > URL. > > Requiring a header-inspecting load balancer and/or implementing a > multi-layer serving architecture seems like a steep cost to get into > this protocol. Especially when explicit URI redirection would solve > the issue for no added cost.
There is a cost, because you may have to change your infrastructure to support URLs directly addressing individual servers within a cluster, and you have to add a different kind of load-balancing to handle when individual servers are taken down in the cluster so another server can take over those URLs for the clients still using them. But I agree that you might be able to use existing URL-based front-end load-balancing kit, and that might reduce the cost of implementation substantially. -- Jamie
