On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> eh; usually it's not an unreasonable assumption that one connection
> will have one client in the other end. If the backend uses that for
> optimization it would break.
I assume you are talking about "end clients" or "user agents". In my
experience, such optimizations are extremely dangerous to the point of
being broken. There are many client-side proxies out there. A single
connection does not mean a single end client.
Alex.
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