At 02:16 PM 8/9/00 , Rick Jones wrote:
>> In general, portions of an HTTP request can be transmitted
>> over separate TCP packets if an application (in this case,
>> polygraph) sets the TCP_NODELAY option on the socket, and
>> if it writes portions of the HTTP request using multiple
>> calls to write() to the socket.
>
>I would probably claim that such an application was badly broken.
>
>Separate writes of logically associated data (say the headers of an HTTP
>request) is simply asking for trouble, and setting TCP_NODELAY is just
>an ugly kludge to try to cover it up.
>
>rick jones
In the scenario that we are talking about, a user wants to test
whether a cache device can handle HTTP requests that arrive across
multiple TCP segments. It would help if polygraph had a mechanism
that would enable testing of such a cache device.
The issue is not whether cache devices or webservers should
or should not do multiple writes. Rather the issue, as I understand
is that an intercepting cache device should be able to handle
HTTP requests that come in across multiple TCP segments. And
in order to test such a device, one could enhance the polygraph
client.
Thanks.
Arun Desai
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