Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jul 30 11:31:45 CDT 2013
Microsoft is developing an Open Source server dedicated towards the new web protocols/performance and most likely Cloud operations. Read the whole article at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/ms_opensources_earlyversion_http20_server/ <quote> Redmond is using a C#-based open source Web stack called Katana server as the basis of its implementation. In the blog post announcing the implementation, MS Open Tech says the protptype supports header compression and stream multiplexing. ... The idea of HTTP 2.0 is to slim-down the ubiquitous Web protocol to get performance improvements that you can't get merely by slinging more bandwidth at the problem: reducing the application layer latency by cutting amount of to-and-fro between client and server, and supporting request multiplexing. </quote> For those interested in viewing and understanding the code, the server open source can be download at GitHub: https://github.com/MSOpenTech/http2-katan