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Re: problem using shopping cart with AOL users

To: Jeremy Johnson <jjohnson@xxxxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: problem using shopping cart with AOL users
From: Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:04:09 -0700
At 12:02 PM 4/27/00 -0700, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
>Use a centralized shopcart.....
>
>I suggest you look into
>a.) client side shop cart
>or
>b.) centralized webserver-independent shop cart storage
>
>there is now way that you are going to fix the aol proxy/multiple server 
>problem (short of the cheeze in the Persistence documentation which indicates 
>the solution is go bind entire networks to specific 

Do you have document that you mentioned that we can reference?

>boxes... this will work for most, but does not SOLVE the problem of server 
>affinity, it is merely a quick hack)... so I suggest you stop looking at how 
>to force server affinity and start looking at centralized shopping carts.. NFS 
>mount, Database driven, etc.. something RealServer Independent..

Most shopping cart we tried using cookie to keep the shopping information.
Do you have any suggestion that  a shopping cart not using cookie at all?

Thanks Jeremy!


>Jeremy
>
>  At 11:37 AM 4/27/00 -0700, Wayne wrote:
>>I have found that there is a problem for using LVS persistent modes
>>to handle AOL customers during load balancing.  We have about
>>30% customers are from AOL.  However, AOL has each user
>>goes out to fetch a page through several cache proxy servers.
>>I could see that one user gets a page that has a few gif files is
>>by getting the html code from cache-rg07.proxy.aol.com, the next
>>gif file from cache-rg04.proxy.aol.com, the next gif file from
>>cache-rg05.proxy.aol.com,...  So the source IP address for even
>>a single page  is not consistent.  The next page html code is from
>>another cache proxy server, not predictable. The result is that a
>>few AOL customers saying that their shopping carts has inaccurate
>>items as they shopping along.  the result of that is I stopped
>>using the shopping cart.
>>
>>Is there any way to address this AOL customers' problem?
>>The persistent mode needs to be able to load balancing based on
>>the actual browser, somehow.
>>
>>
>
>



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