Murder and Backend Authentication

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Hank Beatty wrote:

> I'm thinking that in my case this isn't necessarily a problem because the
> clients will not be able to reach the back end servers so all communication
> will have to be proxied.

This is not the way the aggregator works.  It is always possible (and
sometimes required, especailly for administrative operations) for a
frontend to refer a client to the backend for particular operations.

This is a large performace win for clients which susport referrals (and as
I said above, is necessary for some administrative operations).

-Rob

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