surprised you’ve seen this redirect method. i thought it was patented by google. the most obvious search only turns up an edgio patent. i’ll have to search harder
yeesh i didnt realize there was a patent on that. your link lines up with the authors predictions of cdns coming up with and patenting different ways to accomplish this. i guess it makes sense and maybe it isn't a bad thing, but i never thought about it. i wonder how anyone infringing on that is even caught? is something like that ever enforced?
edit: i was blind and missed that it is marked as abandoned "ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION". i never look at these so maybe thats a normal ending, but it is interesting to me.
this guy sounds uhhh exactly the same https://patents.google.com/patent/US11706292B1/en...? reading these brings up the duration of a connection as a relevant dimension. in my bubble i've only dealt with relatively short lived conns. long lived conns must be more likely to get caught up in routing changes so a redirect to unicast can help.
The thing about know-how it's that it is a secret. But the moment you fill a patent, it is not a secret anymore, but clearly http redirector concept based of geoip db lookup of the client is as old as the internet... We did this in early 2000 just based on public IANA ip address split over each RIR as a naive approach without a proper geoip DB.
edit: i was blind and missed that it is marked as abandoned "ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION". i never look at these so maybe thats a normal ending, but it is interesting to me.
this guy sounds uhhh exactly the same https://patents.google.com/patent/US11706292B1/en...? reading these brings up the duration of a connection as a relevant dimension. in my bubble i've only dealt with relatively short lived conns. long lived conns must be more likely to get caught up in routing changes so a redirect to unicast can help.