Pete Rowley wrote:
> Robert Yates wrote:
> 
>> Isn't amazon's thread (the thread servicing my login attempt) blocked
>> on those two requests? 
> 
> One thread can be made to handle all such requests, so yes, the thread
> would be blocked, but it wouldn't scale to a denial of service through
> thread exhaustion - file handles are another matter, but again this is
> an implementation detail which can be coded for, rather than an inherent
> weakness in the protocol.  It might be useful to identify such forms of
> attack in order that such implementation traps are avoided for any
> officially designated DIX protocol.

Furthermore, if you use a RESTish model, you don't need to have any
thread awaiting at amazon if you pass forth and back a cryptographically
protected session id...


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