[dba-Tech] A new protocol for the web

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Aug 14 00:00:00 CDT 2012


It's not just NGINX. Apache also has support for SPDY developed and open sourced by Google (so a sort of official stamp of approval).
http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/

Hans


On 2012-08-11, at 10:09 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> http1/2 protocol has just about run its course. 
> 
> New internet devices now absorbs so much bandwidth but see little real
> performance improvement other than employing better methods to handle the
> latency.
> 
> Enter a new protocol named SPDY (pronounced speedy). Most of the major
> players in the browser market have been building support for this protocol
> but Microsoft is still... 
> 
> The one big issue is that the new protocol is not backward compatible.
> Fortunately, the second largest adopted web server INGNX (pronounced
> engineX) is now fully supporting the new standard.
> 
> For more information see:
> http://bitsup.blogspot.de/2012/08/the-road-to-http2.html
> 
> ...and...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY
> 
> Jim   
> 
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