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> Try roaming whilst one of those HTTP transactions is in progress That specific connection silently fails, then the app silently retries, and succeeds - from
by Shish2k 9y ago
> Try roaming whilst one of those HTTP transactions is in progress
That specific connection silently fails, then the app silently retries, and succeeds - from the end user's perspective, they've switched IP addresses and the webapp still works fine.
- JdeBP 9y agoIncorrect. TCP does not work that way and the failure mode is nowhere near that smooth. I suggest actually trying it. No cheating and watching Keith Winstein's video on the mosh WWW site, which shows what actually happened in the case of one fairly well-known WWW app, now! (-:
- moosingin3space 9y agoOn my Android phone, the user experience is significantly degraded when that happens -- the app has to wait to re-establish a TCP and TLS connection, which is relatively slow.