Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.4-dev5 with keep-alive :-)

2010-01-13 Thread Ross West
That's more of an issue with the site than a (proxy based) load balancer - the LB would be doing the exact same thing as the client. WT Precisely not and that's the problem. The proxy cannot ask the user WT if he wants to retry on sensible requests, and the cannot precisely WT know what is at

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.4-dev5 with keep-alive :-)

2010-01-12 Thread Ross West
I'll enter in this conversation as I've used (successfully) a load balancer which did server-side keep-alive a while ago. WT Hmmm that's different. There are issues with the HTTP protocol WT itself making this extremely difficult. When you're keeping a WT connection alive in order to send a

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.4-dev5 with keep-alive :-)

2010-01-12 Thread Ross West
WT It's not only a matter of caching the request to replay it, it is that WT you're simply not allowed to. I know a guy who ordered a book at a WT large well-known site. His order was processed twice. Maybe there is WT something on this site which grants itself the right to replay a user's WT