Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
Martin, > If I go to www.AOL.com I am on their web-server Yup. We're not talking about going to www.aol.com. We're talking about AOL customers browsing this dude's application, which is not hosted through AOL. > and if I check email I am submitting the request thru those same web > servers Huh?

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Martin Gainty
contents - Original Message - From: "Christopher Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:27 PM Subject: Re: AOL > Martin, > > Apparently, your mail reader seems my messages as blank (due to poor > han

RE: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Blumenthal
Thanks! These are good places to test. > -Original Message- > From: Paul Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:06 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AOL > > Daniel Blumenthal wrote: > >

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
Martin, Apparently, your mail reader seems my messages as blank (due to poor handling of GPG attachments). Here is the message I was trying to send: > Dude, I think you're totally confused. > > You can replace the term "AOL" in all of these messages with "some > crappy ISP that likes to mix thin

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Martin Gainty
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:08 PM Subject: Re: AOL

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
Martin, > Saying you'll only deal with the first n addresses may lead to bigger > problems later on.. I would put a sniffer on to see if AOL is giving > you a 301/302. If that is the case you will have to configure > variables Cache-Control Expires Dude, I think you're totally confused. You can

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Singleton
Daniel Blumenthal wrote: We just switched from a single server to a cluster, with a load balancer out front to manage incoming connections. The load balancer makes the decision to go to app server 1 (app1) or app server 2 (app2) based on IP address - once a request comes in from one source IP, a

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Martin Gainty
ng of it or its contents - Original Message - From: "Christopher Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:38 PM Subject: Re: AOL

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Singleton
Daniel Blumenthal wrote: How does the lb decide where you go for all requests after the first one? Typically, the session id is sniffed from the URL or cookie and the lb maintains a table of mappings that expires after some time. Our two choices are evidently "IP-based" and "cookie-based".

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
Dan, > Our two choices are evidently "IP-based" and "cookie-based". > Currently, we're using "IP-based", so every IP address is treated as > a separate request. I'm looking into making it cookie-based, and > making cookies a requirement for the site (currently, we only use > cookies to store a co

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread David Kerber
Daniel Blumenthal wrote: Chris, How does the lb decide where you go for all requests after the first one? Typically, the session id is sniffed from the URL or cookie and the lb maintains a table of mappings that expires after some time. Our two choices are evidently "IP-based" and

RE: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Blumenthal
Chris, > How does the lb decide where you go for all requests after > the first one? Typically, the session id is sniffed from the > URL or cookie and the lb maintains a table of mappings that > expires after some time. Our two choices are evidently "IP-based" and "cookie-based". Currently,

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
Dan, > The problem is that it appears that AOL will randomly assign an IP > address to every request a user sends. So a user could end up going > to both servers. Yup. AOL is feisty like that. > The load balancer makes the decision to go to app server 1 (app1) or > app server 2 (app2) based o

RE: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Blumenthal
er 10, 2006 9:07 AM > To: Tomcat Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AOL > > Good Morning Dan- > > It seems you're going thru alot more work because of session > expiration issues Do you know if AOL supports 'sticky' sessions? > > Thanks, >

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Martin Gainty
l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tomcat Users List'" Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:00 AM Subject: RE: AOL > Good morning Martin, > > Have I misunderstood? The issue isn't switching from using Apache as a > front end (for now), but rather that Ame

RE: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Blumenthal
sessionID verification to only check those first three numbers. This is probably an Apache problem. Daniel > -Original Message- > From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:37 AM > To: Tomcat Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Martin Gainty
Good Morning Dan From what I see alot of folks are using Hardware accelerators to overcome inherent delay introduced by front ending with apache To clarify everyone's understanding What does AOL bring to your environment and How does AOL server configure in your environment? If I had to specula

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Daniel Blumenthal wrote: We just switched from a single server to a cluster, with a load balancer out front to manage incoming connections. The load balancer makes the decision to go to app server 1 (app1) or app server 2 (app2) based on IP address - once a request comes in from one source IP, a

Re: AOL

2006-10-10 Thread SSL
The IP is that of the last proxy, which does not have to be the same between requests. But it is almost always from the same range, belonging to the provider. Daniel Blumenthal wrote: > > We just switched from a single server to a cluster, with a load balancer > out > front to manage incoming