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by hk9565 5542 days ago
A draft of the SPDY specification is here:

http://dev.chromium.org/spdy

Mike Belshe presented about SPDY in the IETF HTTP working group meeting at the most recent IETF meeting:

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/slides/httpbis-7.pdf

We'd love for more folks to implement SPDY, both clients and servers.

2 comments

Sounds like HTTP 1.2?

Since Google servers and Chrome already support it, the chicken-egg problem might be solved. Firefox has an incentive to implement it to make Google search faster and other web service should implement this to provide a smoother user experience.

HTTP 2.0      (1.2 would have to be backwards compatible)
Yes. And just to argument this, here is the relevant except of the FAQ:

Q: Is SPDY a replacement for HTTP?

A: No. SPDY replaces some parts of HTTP, but mostly augments it. At the highest level of the application layer, the request-response protocol remains the same. SPDY still uses HTTP methods, headers, and other semantics. But SPDY overrides other parts of the protocol, such as connection management and data transfer formats.