Google's SPDY protocol will speed up the web - and Chrome OS, too
"We started working on SPDY while exploring ways to optimize the way browsers and servers communicate," says the official blog post. It continues, "We want to continue building on the web's tradition of experimentation and optimization, to further support the evolution of websites and browsers."
It's not all about altruism, of course. Improvements like those Google is seeking with SPDY, the Go! programming language, and Native Client will all greatly benefit the Chrome browser and Chrome OS. After all, an OS which relies heavily on the cloud for access apps and data will certainly perform better with an improved protocol powering the client and server. It's probably a safe bet that Google would roll SPDY on their own servers early on to give apps like Google Docs and Picasa Web a performance boost on the Google platform.
Whatever the motivation, I'm all for more speed on the web. My ISP is obviously in no hurry to improve things on that front, so if Google can pull off the estimated 55% performance gain then I'm all for it. You go, Google!
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Cam said 4:45PM on 11-12-2009
So can Google get rid of the // now?
spdy:thisisaurlhere.com ?
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Kris120890 said 4:53PM on 11-12-2009
Is this going to take years and would this require all sites to change they build their websites or is it as simple as just modifying parts of the website. As you can tell I'm not clued up exactly on this kind of thing even though I use it everyday.
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Kris120890 said 4:59PM on 11-12-2009
Also, about halfway down there is a comment from Mike beltzner. He is the head guy at Mozilla right. So this would mean Chrome and firefox would be ready at similar times if this ever goes ahead and gets accepted.
Cam said 5:02PM on 11-12-2009
My guess is that http will stick around for a bit, some sites will move completely to spdy, while some will be accessible through spdy and http, and some will stay http. I don't see it replacing http completely.
der_tuxman said 5:04PM on 11-12-2009
No, SPDY will not speed up anything. HTTP already knows the "If-Modified-Since" instruction. SPDY basically says that even non-modified content should be downloaded while requesting HTTP headers, so they are available instantly. You see, this is like turning off your browser cache.
It might be a way to avoid Google Adsense to be blocked, but it is not an improvement in any way.
Bullshit!
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Steven said 1:37PM on 11-13-2009
Wow...it's obvious that you haven't read the documents on the SPDY site.
der_tuxman said 1:39PM on 11-13-2009
It's obvious that you have read them but did not understand what it is about...
der_tuxman said 5:08PM on 11-12-2009
BTW, there's no point in compressing HTTP headers. It would mean that the web server has to work a lot more. Now guess what that means for your reliability. A server is not a fucking workstation! Ah, Google makes me puke.
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Maz said 8:07AM on 11-13-2009
Nice job with the hotlinking.
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Steven said 1:37PM on 11-13-2009
"Go!" is the language that Google didn't invent. go is the language they did invent.
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