[JDEV] urgent: Proxy Server

[Yermo Lamers]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:

> Quoting Yermo Lamers <yml at dtlink.com>:
> > Why not simply implement the Jabber protocol over HTTP? 
> > If no one has done that by the time we get started on our project, we'll
> > implement it. ( ~2 months time before we get started on this)
> 
>   Easier said then done.  This is simply due to the fact that HTTP itself isn't 
> a persistent protocol.  While it *can* be made to work this way, not all proxy 
> servers will respect the persistence of an HTTP 1.1 connection, and will 
> instead issue several HTTP 1.0 requests, with the persietence only taking place 
> between the client and the proxy server itself.  It *IS POSSIBLE*, but what 
> would be needed would be a way to 'emulate' a persistent connection by using 
> logical 'sessions'.  These sessions would identify a given login, and spool 
> data going out untill the HTTP client implentation could connect, validate that 
> it owns a certain session ID, and retrieve the XML packets spooled up.  Simply 
> a matter of a negotiation system being made, really.

What percentage of proxy servers would you guess do not honor HTTP 1.1
persistence? I would guess the most popular proxy's would. 


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