I sometimes get a message saying that my search request has been given low priority because I am not accepting cookies. What is that all about?
When analyzing our performance problems, we discovered that the server was being overloaded because it was simultaneously working on the identical request that was submitted multiple times. That occurs when a user submits a time-consuming request and then gets tired of waiting for the results. So he hits escape and then resubmits the same request. Although hitting escape aborts the request on the user’s browser, it does not stop our server which is actively working on obtaining the results. So the server is spending a lot of time performing searches that the user has abandonded, and this degrades the performance for all the other users who are patiently waiting for their results. To overcome this problem, we decided to tag each user with a cookie. That way we can determine if a user has submitted a request while we are still in the process of obtaining results for one of his previous requests. If that happens, we simply abort the previous search on the server. But some users have cooki
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