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To: Rene Madsen who wrote (6987)	2/26/1998 6:44:00 AM
From: Alexander Pavlov	Respond to of 16892

<< As it has been pointed out by at least one other poster, the PROFESSIONAL way of load balancing is by letting the router deal with it. The cost and effort of this is really quite minor - have you at least checked it out? >> Well, I have read about the idea of load balancing by router several times already. Sorry for being so dumb, but I can't understand how could it work, I mean, without significant changes in application. The point is that DATEK session from login to logout does not maintain single TCP connection. I do not want to continue, for it gets too technical and surely way off topic. Anybody who could clarify this issue please feel free to use my e-mail address or private messaging. I am really curious, Alex

To: Rene Madsen who wrote (6987)	2/26/1998 8:01:00 AM
From: Scott Pedigo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

If you INSIST on using this kind of pseudo load balancing, at least provide a page for the button that doesn't take ages to load - i.e. No graphics, no java, just a button. PLEASE! Good idea - a page with just one button (or two?) on it. If you get tired of waiting, you can do this yourself you know. I did it with the banner-covered, slow downloading QuickQuotes page of one of the free delayed quote services. Namely, in Netscape, I pulled down the View/Document Source menu, saved a copy of the HTML code to my local hard disk, edited out all the banner ads and other crap - leaving only the part which gets and displays the quotes - and added a bookmark to the local file. Instead of http://... you have file://... Works great. I haven't tried it with Datek yet, and it probably can't be done for just any page, but I bet it COULD be done to get just a login button. That's the beauty of HTML - no matter how complicated it is, it works only because it is sent to your computer and interpreted by your browser locally. So you can always look at it.