computer networking
- 1. 15-441 Computer Networking Lecture 25 – The Web
- 2. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 2 Outline • HTTP review and details (more in notes) • Persistent HTTP review • HTTP caching • Content distribution networks
- 3. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 3 HTTP Basics (Review) • HTTP layered over bidirectional byte stream • Almost always TCP • Interaction • Client sends request to server, followed by response from server to client • Requests/responses are encoded in text • Stateless • Server maintains no information about past client requests
- 4. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 4 How to Mark End of Message? (Review) • Size of message Content-Length • Must know size of transfer in advance • Delimiter MIME-style Content-Type • Server must “escape” delimiter in content • Close connection • Only server can do this
- 5. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 5 HTTP Request (review) • Request line • Method • GET – return URI • HEAD – return headers only of GET response • POST – send data to the server (forms, etc.) • URL (relative) • E.g., /index.html • HTTP version
- 6. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 6 HTTP Request (cont.) (review) • Request headers • Authorization – authentication info • Acceptable document types/encodings • From – user email • If-Modified-Since • Referrer – what caused this page to be requested • User-Agent – client software • Blank-line • Body
- 7. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 7 HTTP Request (review)
- 8. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 8 HTTP Request Example (review) GET / HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Host: www.intel-iris.net Connection: Keep-Alive
- 9. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 9 HTTP Response (review) • Status-line • HTTP version • 3 digit response code • 1XX – informational • 2XX – success • 200 OK • 3XX – redirection • 301 Moved Permanently • 303 Moved Temporarily • 304 Not Modified • 4XX – client error • 404 Not Found • 5XX – server error • 505 HTTP Version Not Supported • Reason phrase
- 10. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 10 HTTP Response (cont.) (review) • Headers • Location – for redirection • Server – server software • WWW-Authenticate – request for authentication • Allow – list of methods supported (get, head, etc) • Content-Encoding – E.g x-gzip • Content-Length • Content-Type • Expires • Last-Modified • Blank-line • Body
- 11. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 11 HTTP Response Example (review) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:49:38 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:54:18 GMT ETag: "7a11f-10ed-3a75ae4a" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 4333 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html …..
- 12. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 12 Outline • HTTP intro and details • Persistent HTTP • HTTP caching • Content distribution networks
- 13. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 13 Typical Workload (Web Pages) • Multiple (typically small) objects per page • File sizes • Heavy-tailed • Pareto distribution for tail • Lognormal for body of distribution -- For reference/interest only -- • Embedded references • Number of embedded objects = pareto – p(x) = aka x-(a+1)
- 14. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 14 HTTP 0.9/1.0 (mostly review) • One request/response per TCP connection • Simple to implement • Disadvantages • Multiple connection setups three-way handshake each time • Several extra round trips added to transfer • Multiple slow starts
- 15. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 15 Single Transfer Example Client Server SYN SYN SYN SYN ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK DAT DAT DAT DAT FIN ACK 0 RTT 1 RTT 2 RTT 3 RTT 4 RTT Server reads from disk FIN Server reads from disk Client opens TCP connection Client sends HTTP request for HTML Client parses HTML Client opens TCP connection Client sends HTTP request for image Image begins to arrive
- 16. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 16 More Problems • Short transfers are hard on TCP • Stuck in slow start • Loss recovery is poor when windows are small • Lots of extra connections • Increases server state/processing • Server also forced to keep TIME_WAIT connection state -- Things to think about -- • Why must server keep these? • Tends to be an order of magnitude greater than # of active connections, why?
- 17. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 17 Persistent Connection Solution (review) • Multiplex multiple transfers onto one TCP connection • How to identify requests/responses • Delimiter Server must examine response for delimiter string • Content-length and delimiter Must know size of transfer in advance • Block-based transmission send in multiple length delimited blocks • Store-and-forward wait for entire response and then use content-length • Solution use existing methods and close connection otherwise
- 18. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 18 Persistent Connection Example (review) Client Server ACK ACK DAT DAT ACK 0 RTT 1 RTT 2 RTT Server reads from disk Client sends HTTP request for HTML Client parses HTML Client sends HTTP request for image Image begins to arrive DAT Server reads from disk DAT
- 19. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 19 Persistent HTTP (review) Nonpersistent HTTP issues: • Requires 2 RTTs per object • OS must work and allocate host resources for each TCP connection • But browsers often open parallel TCP connections to fetch referenced objects Persistent HTTP • Server leaves connection open after sending response • Subsequent HTTP messages between same client/server are sent over connection Persistent without pipelining: • Client issues new request only when previous response has been received • One RTT for each referenced object Persistent with pipelining: • Default in HTTP/1.1 • Client sends requests as soon as it encounters a referenced object • As little as one RTT for all the referenced objects
- 20. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 20 Outline • HTTP intro and details • Persistent HTTP -- new stuff -- • HTTP caching • Content distribution networks
- 21. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 21 HTTP Caching • Clients often cache documents • Challenge: update of documents • If-Modified-Since requests to check • HTTP 0.9/1.0 used just date • HTTP 1.1 has an opaque “entity tag” (could be a file signature, etc.) as well • When/how often should the original be checked for changes? • Check every time? • Check each session? Day? Etc? • Use Expires header • If no Expires, often use Last-Modified as estimate
- 22. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 22 Example Cache Check Request GET / HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate If-Modified-Since: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:54:18 GMT If-None-Match: "7a11f-10ed-3a75ae4a" User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Host: www.intel-iris.net Connection: Keep-Alive
- 23. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 23 Example Cache Check Response HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:50:51 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 ETag: "7a11f-10ed-3a75ae4a”
- 24. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 24 Ways to cache Client-directed caching: Web Proxies Server-directed caching: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
- 25. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 25 Web Proxy Caches • User configures browser: Web accesses via cache • Browser sends all HTTP requests to cache • Object in cache: cache returns object • Else cache requests object from origin server, then returns object to client client Proxy server client HTTP request HTTP request HTTP response HTTP response HTTP request HTTP response origin server origin server
- 26. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 26 Caching Example (1) Assumptions • Average object size = 100,000 bits • Avg. request rate from institution’s browser to origin servers = 15/sec • Delay from institutional router to any origin server and back to router = 2 sec Consequences • Utilization on LAN = 15% • Utilization on access link = 100% • Total delay = Internet delay + access delay + LAN delay = 2 sec + minutes + milliseconds origin servers public Internet institutional network 10 Mbps LAN 1.5 Mbps access link
- 27. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 27 Caching Example (2) Possible solution • Increase bandwidth of access link to, say, 10 Mbps • Often a costly upgrade Consequences • Utilization on LAN = 15% • Utilization on access link = 15% • Total delay = Internet delay + access delay + LAN delay = 2 sec + msecs + msecs origin servers public Internet institutional network 10 Mbps LAN 10 Mbps access link
- 28. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 28 Caching Example (3) Install cache • Suppose hit rate is .4 Consequence • 40% requests will be satisfied almost immediately (say 10 msec) • 60% requests satisfied by origin server • Utilization of access link reduced to 60%, resulting in negligible delays • Weighted average of delays = .6*2 sec + .4*10msecs < 1.3 secs origin servers public Internet institutional network 10 Mbps LAN 1.5 Mbps access link institutional cache
- 29. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 29 Problems • Over 50% of all HTTP objects are uncacheable – why? • Not easily solvable • Dynamic data stock prices, scores, web cams • CGI scripts results based on passed parameters • Obvious fixes • SSL encrypted data is not cacheable • Most web clients don’t handle mixed pages well many generic objects transferred with SSL • Cookies results may be based on passed data • Hit metering owner wants to measure # of hits for revenue, etc. • What will be the end result?
- 30. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 30 Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) • The content providers are the CDN customers. Content replication • CDN company installs hundreds of CDN servers throughout Internet • Close to users • CDN replicates its customers’ content in CDN servers. When provider updates content, CDN updates servers origin server in North America CDN distribution node CDN server in S. America CDN server in Europe CDN server in Asia
- 31. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 31 Outline • HTTP intro and details • Persistent HTTP • HTTP caching • Content distribution networks
- 32. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 32 Content Distribution Networks & Server Selection • Replicate content on many servers • Challenges • How to replicate content • Where to replicate content • How to find replicated content • How to choose among know replicas • How to direct clients towards replica
- 33. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 33 Server Selection • Which server? • Lowest load to balance load on servers • Best performance to improve client performance • Based on Geography? RTT? Throughput? Load? • Any alive node to provide fault tolerance • How to direct clients to a particular server? • As part of routing anycast, cluster load balancing • Not covered • As part of application HTTP redirect • As part of naming DNS
- 34. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 34 Application Based • HTTP supports simple way to indicate that Web page has moved (30X responses) • Server receives Get request from client • Decides which server is best suited for particular client and object • Returns HTTP redirect to that server • Can make informed application specific decision • May introduce additional overhead multiple connection setup, name lookups, etc. • OK solution in general, but… • HTTP Redirect has some flaws – especially with current browsers • Incurs many delays, which operators may really care about
- 35. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 35 Naming Based • Client does DNS name lookup for service • Name server chooses appropriate server address • A-record returned is “best” one for the client • What information can name server base decision on? • Server load/location must be collected • Information in the name lookup request • Name service client typically the local name server for client
- 36. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 36 How Akamai Works • Clients fetch html document from primary server • E.g. fetch index.html from cnn.com • URLs for replicated content are replaced in html • E.g. <img src=“http://cnn.com/af/x.gif”> replaced with <img src=“http://a73.g.akamaitech.net/7/23/cnn.com/af/x.gif”> • Client is forced to resolve aXYZ.g.akamaitech.net hostname
- 37. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 37 How Akamai Works • How is content replicated? • Akamai only replicates static content (*) • Modified name contains original file name • Akamai server is asked for content • First checks local cache • If not in cache, requests file from primary server and caches file * (At least, the version we’re talking about today. Akamai actually lets sites write code that can run on Akamai’s servers, but that’s a pretty different beast)
- 38. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 38 How Akamai Works • Root server gives NS record for akamai.net • Akamai.net name server returns NS record for g.akamaitech.net • Name server chosen to be in region of client’s name server • TTL is large • G.akamaitech.net nameserver chooses server in region • Should try to chose server that has file in cache - How to choose? • Uses aXYZ name and hash • TTL is small why?
- 39. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 39 Simple Hashing • Given document XYZ, we need to choose a server to use • Suppose we use modulo • Number servers from 1…n • Place document XYZ on server (XYZ mod n) • What happens when a servers fails? n n-1 • Same if different people have different measures of n • Why might this be bad?
- 40. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 40 Consistent Hash • “view” = subset of all hash buckets that are visible • Desired features • Balanced – in any one view, load is equal across buckets • Smoothness – little impact on hash bucket contents when buckets are added/removed • Spread – small set of hash buckets that may hold an object regardless of views • Load – across all views # of objects assigned to hash bucket is small
- 41. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 41 Consistent Hash – Example • Smoothness addition of bucket does not cause movement between existing buckets • Spread & Load small set of buckets that lie near object • Balance no bucket is responsible for large number of objects • Construction • Assign each of C hash buckets to random points on mod 2n circle, where, hash key size = n. • Map object to random position on circle • Hash of object = closest clockwise bucket 0 4 8 12 Bucket 14
- 42. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 42 How Akamai Works End-user cnn.com (content provider) DNS root server Akamai server 1 2 3 4 Akamai high-level DNS server Akamai low-level DNS server Nearby matching Akamai server 11 6 7 8 9 10 Get index.h tml Get /cnn.com/foo.jpg 12 Get foo.jpg 5
- 43. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 43 Akamai – Subsequent Requests End-user cnn.com (content provider) DNS root server Akamai server 1 2 Akamai high-level DNS server Akamai low-level DNS server 7 8 9 10 Get index. html Get /cnn.com/foo.jpg Nearby matching Akamai server
- 44. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 44 Impact on DNS Usage • DNS is used for server selection more and more • What are reasonable DNS TTLs for this type of use • Typically want to adapt to load changes • Low TTL for A-records what about NS records? • How does this affect caching? • What do the first and subsequent lookup do?
- 45. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 45 HTTP (Summary) • Simple text-based file exchange protocol • Support for status/error responses, authentication, client-side state maintenance, cache maintenance • Workloads • Typical documents structure, popularity • Server workload • Interactions with TCP • Connection setup, reliability, state maintenance • Persistent connections • How to improve performance • Persistent connections • Caching • Replication
- 46. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 47 Typical Workload (Server) • Popularity • Zipf distribution (P = kr-1 ) surprisingly common • Obvious optimization caching • Request sizes • In one measurement paper median 1946 bytes, mean 13767 bytes • Why such a difference? Heavy-tailed distribution • Pareto – p(x) = aka x-(a+1) • Temporal locality • Modeled as distance into push-down stack • Lognormal distribution of stack distances • Request interarrival • Bursty request patterns
- 47. Lecture 19: 2006-11- 02 48 Caching Proxies – Sources for Misses • Capacity • How large a cache is necessary or equivalent to infinite • On disk vs. in memory typically on disk • Compulsory • First time access to document • Non-cacheable documents • CGI-scripts • Personalized documents (cookies, etc) • Encrypted data (SSL) • Consistency • Document has been updated/expired before reuse • Conflict • No such misses
Editor's Notes
- #2: Blast through HTTP review slides on the projector. Swap back to chalkboard for new stuff.
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- #15: Now that you’ve seen TCP in the previous lectures, the overhead of one TCP connection per object is more clear.
- #22: Ask: What’s the problem with just using date for IMS queries? - Web servers may generate content per-client Examples: CGI scripts, things like google customized home, vary with cookies, client IP, referrer, accept-encoding, etc.
- #34: Ask: What things might you want to pick the server using? How do you direct clients to a server? Anyone know how Akamai works?
- #35: Draw diagram: Client ---&gt; Server &lt;---redir---- -------&gt; Server 2 &lt;----answer----