At 12:02 PM 4/27/00 -0700, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
>Use a centralized shopcart.....
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>I suggest you look into
>a.) client side shop cart
>or
>b.) centralized webserver-independent shop cart storage
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>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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