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by kkielhofner 4722 days ago
A good analysis but somewhat dated. It has been established, for instance, that with a compatible SSL lib and TLS NPN support SPDY/HTTPbis can be supported on the same socket and port as HTTPS. With that said I really like what PHK has to say about "HTTP routers".
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His suggestion is:

> One simple way to gain a lot of benefit for little cost in this area, would be to assign "flow-labels" which each are restricted to one particular Host: header, allowing HTTP routers to only examine the first request on each flow.

I don't understand what he's saying here. Who assigns a label to the "Host" header when? Is he proposing sticky cookies?