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Protocol-Specific Replication:

Cisco's DistributedDirector uses a HTTP specific protocol to redirect requests to other servers [9, 10]. It forces the request redirection by issuing a HTTP ``302 Temporarily Moved'' status code to the client, along with the URL for the ``best'' server. A similar approach is used in the SWEB project [1] for clusters of servers. This approach is highly application specific.



Riccardo Bettati
Tue Jun 9 00:52:24 CDT 1998