Re: HTTP router point-of-view concerns

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Sat, 13 July 2013 18:49 UTC

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In message <20130713182902.69380.qmail@f5-external.bushwire.net>, "Mark Delany"
 writes:

>   Client -> sessionid -> Edge --sessionid+Cookies--> origin
>                           |
>                           ^
>                           |
>                    | Cookie Jar |
>                           |
>                           ^
>                           |
>   Client <- sessionid <- Edge <--New Cookies-- origin

Yes, that's the obvious backwards compatibility design, except
that for "Edge" you might often just read "apache" or "ngnix".

>The benefit being that you achieve perfect cookie compression on
>your external links without inventing a fancy compression system.

Good way to express it.

>The argument being that the big guys get the most benefit, ergo they
>should bear the cost?

It could actually be interesting if somebody would go through their
HTTP/1.1 traffic and estimate how much bandwidth would be saved.

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