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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by grrowl on Friday June 19, 2015 @12:06AM (#9742961)
It will only multiplex requests to a single host— the layer at which it operates means it will need to connect to both contentprovider.com and ad.networks.com over distinct TCP connections.
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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by whoopdedo on Saturday June 20, 2015 @12:28AM (#9748989)
Right. The accelerator accepts the connection from the client as a proxy but connects to the myriad backends. The downstream side only sees one multiplexed stream with the responses from the multiple servers.
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