[opensource-dev] HTTP connection changes heading to Aditi in the near future

[Monty Brandenberg]

On 3/14/2013 9:46 PM, Darien Caldwell wrote:
> As well I am not sure why scripts are being included in this at all. The
> HTTP issues as I understood were the number of http connections a viewer
> had to handle, with another factor in that mix being the particular
> router the resident uses and how well/badly it handled multiple HTTP
> connections.

That only scratches the surface of the issues involved.  Even
for viewer-to-grid, there are a dozen or more independent
variables.

 > Service to service communcations such as a script to an
> external server or a script to another script shouldn't be a
> contributing factor in these viewer connection problems. The connections
> should never be hitting any viewer.

It's a different communication path.  llRequestURL and
llRequestSecureURL are part of the service also called 'HTTP-In'.
The HTTP server is in the script, the client is a non-viewer
entity running out on the net.  This path transits the gateways
and so may be impacted indirectly (DRTSIM-203 channel) and
directly (DRTSIM-203H channel) and is worth testing for those
who've built services on them.