Jonathan, Thanks a lot for your comments . Actually, the problem I currently face is how to provide maximum reliability (if this word is applies) in terms of http load balancing. Well, I definitely understand your constraints regarding professional consultancy and thank you again for your valuable comments. I will investigate more on the issue and hope to find a proper solution; being a technical approach or just as you suggested, a statement of non-applicability. Thanks in advance.
Ali On Jun 7, 2013 12:23 AM, "Jonathan Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 June 2013 09:09, Ali Majdzadeh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Jonathan, Lukas > > Thanks for your valuable comments. Would you please indicate some of > those moving parts that could fail during a single download, Jonathan? > > Sorry Ali, I don't think that's appropriate to the HAProxy mailing > list. Other people may help you with this, but it's too close to my > usual job for me to spend time on, on the wrong list. Contact me > professionally off-list if you like. > > > From Lukas comments, I realized that at least some parts of the problem > are related to the client agent, is that right? I mean, for example, being > the primary server failed, if the client agent retries the download > request, HAProxy can proxy the new request to the other back-end server and > download continues from where it was interrupted, is this conclusion > correct? > > That probably won't happen. You'll need explicit support on both > client and server for HTTP Range requests, which I'm not sure you'll > get if you're just exposing download links and expecting a user to > re-click after a failed download. Check out > http://zoompf.com/2010/03/performance-tip-for-http-downloads for some > more information on this. > > Regards, > Jonathan > -- > Jonathan Matthews // Oxford, London, UK > http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html > >
