[olug] Correction

Brian Roberson roberson at users.olug.org
Sat Oct 5 02:37:47 UTC 2002


I need to correct myself on a statement I made at the last meeting, I was 
confused. I was crossing two seperate issues in the http protocol. My statement was

"The server sends back data on a random port to the client"

It should have been

"The server sends back data from port 80 to a random client port"

The point I was trying to make was that the client ( a web browser ) does not
check that the data being received was from the same server it sent the request
to ( e.g. the GET POST etc... ) In the case of virtual web farms ( web servers
front-ended by a load balancing device ) I have seen packet captures where the 
return data is not from the actual virtual server, rather the real server. This
is not always te case, as in some load balancing devices step in and perform dynamic
NAT on the packet. 







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