Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP 275
MojoKid writes "Google's efforts to improve Internet efficiency through the development of the SPDY (pronounced 'speedy') protocol got a major boost today when the chairman of the HTTP Working Group (HTTPbis), Mark Nottingham, called for it to be included in the HTTP 2.0 standard. SPDY is a protocol that's already used to a certain degree online; formal incorporation into the next-generation standard would improve its chances of being generally adopted. SPDY's goal is to reduce web page load times through the use of header compression, packet prioritization, and multiplexing (combining multiple requests into a single connection). By default, a web browser opens an individual connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies."
It's a secret plot by apple (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's a secret plot by apple (Score:5, Funny)
Look dude, if you're going to spread a conspiracy properly, you need to spread your ideas out to a least 3 excessively long paragraphs or raging insanity. You could have easily structured it:
-Secret plot by apple. They're evil, man.
-The secret plot happens to be cuz iOS is evil like them.
-iOS version 5 is also evil.
-They've drugged Google with evil for more evil.
It's going to fail (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft has announced their implementation, DirectSPEW.
It's going to kill SPDY when it debuts in a few months with Windows Phone 7.1.
Hi bonch
I before E... (Score:5, Funny)
"[T]he SPDY (pronounced 'speedy') protocol ....
No WAY am I pronouncing it 'speedy'. I'm a callin' it 'spidey'. That way, I can build wearable network monitors which vibrate at high frequencies when the web server gets bogged down.
And then.... I'll be able to interrupt my boss in mid-sentence and say, "Hang on, my spidey sensors are tingling..."
Re:It's a secret plot by apple (Score:5, Funny)
Your conspiracy needs more Illuminati/Lizard People/FEMA camps/Aliens/Other batshit craziness.
Pick any two and try again
Re:I before E... (Score:5, Funny)
"I better check my web servers."
Re:Grossly Incorrect Summary (Score:5, Funny)
By default, a web browser opens an individual connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies
... SPDYs optimizations largely revolve around "pipelining", but without some of the issues that it causes.
No no no... You're using the wrong definition of "pipelining". First you must realize the Internet is a Series of Tubes. The Series part is important because TCP is a Serial protocol. If any Tube in the Series cracks and data is lost, endpoints start spewing packets all over the place in alarm! SPDY's optimizations revolve around "pipelining" -- That is: Lining the Pipes to prevent such events from happening in the first place.
HTTP1.1 is OLD! The pipes built around that time are OLD too. The HTTP1.1 "pipelining" is starting to wear through after 17 years... Connecting the Tubes is expensive too; If a Header is compressed there's less chance of part being lost in a data leak when it flows through the tubes.
There is an underground movement to get rid of the whole ridiculous idea of Tubes. I mean, Why would you take something as permeable as a NET and build a Series of Tubes out of it?! OF COURSE YOU NEED PIPELINING if you want it to be efficient!
However, what if you didn't need a "pipe" what if you could get your information from the Sea of Data by Casting about the Web and sorting out the results on your end? You could simply keep trying until you were satisfied with the data you had. Even better if relevant data could be naturally organized -- swarm together -- in a sort of BitTorrent so you could get the data in the Net with less Casting... One could even take the center out -- Decentralize it -- to help prevent conflicts about which data came from what side. I mean: Who cares if someone wants to DownLoad a car so much that it's undrivable from all the weight? It doesn't make your car any less usable! Besides, the naysayers are all Hypocrites: They have to participate in the things they say are wrong just to even see into what we're doing -- You have to Peer to Peer!
Don't even get me started on Cloud Computing! Seriously... It's VaproWare!
Re:What about pipelining and keep-alive? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's a secret plot by apple (Score:3, Funny)
And Microsoft to merely wrap some bloatware round it and call it their own, like they do with their "search engine" [blogspot.com].
Re:Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net ...zzz... (Score:5, Funny)
Great! But will it do anything to speed up pages that refuse to display until the advertisements do? Even Slashdot takes longer to display because of some third-party ad server.
XHTML largely fixed that by banning document.write(). Unfortunately the "industry" didn't like that and produced the enormous brain-fart known as HTML5, which went back to allowing all the crazy shit that XHTML had banned for a good reason.
Although (Score:3, Funny)
The speed benefits provided by this new protocol will rapidly be negated by the ability to cram more shit into each connection.
Re:It's going to fail (Score:4, Funny)
Can't tell if troll or usual MS tactic.