6 Jul
2000
6 Jul
'00
10:07 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:20:50AM -0700, Jamie Rishaw wrote:
True, but in the world of what-would-we-use-this-practice-for, it mostly applies to web, which for most intents is a one shot connect-get-drop; I doubt a single TCP RST would really irk too many users.
However, more and more sites are maintaining server-side state (even sites that don't have a traditional "shopping cart"). An alarming number of these seem to break in terms of navigation if that data is lost. Some, myself included, would argue that these sites are poorly designed, but they do exist in large numbers. So, there is still a penalty in many cases for failing-over unnecessarily. -- - mdz