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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: mythociate on January 21, 2014, 07:35:16 am

Title: Why Don't "Content Delivery Networks" bleepING DELIVER ANY bleepING CONTENT!??
Post by: mythociate on January 21, 2014, 07:35:16 am

(This is partly-related to 'FusionCash' or 'Support,' but it branches from a general complaint about laziness.)

Quite regularly, content-delivery/distribution-networks (CDNs) have frozen my browser. First there was/is the 'akamaihd'-CDN (used by Facebook). Then there was/is the 'wsrcdn'-CDN, used by Wiser Surveys.

Computer-geeks claim CDNs do complicated feats to deliver content to info-seekers across the whole-wide `Net (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network#Content_service_protocols), but it comes across as more like 'webmasters redirecting info-seekers to other servers (which redirect them to yet other servers etc.)' And Firefox reads that as an 'unresponsive script.'

The way it's supposed to be is end-to-end (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle):

Quote from: Saltzer, Reed and Clark, paraphrased by Wikipedia

application-specific functions ought to reside in the end hosts of a network rather than in intermediary nodes –  provided they can be implemented "completely and correctly" in the end hosts.