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by jimktrains2 4144 days ago
Because it doesn't solve any problems except page loading speed. There are other things that people care about and the added complexity of implementing Layer 4 in Layer 7 make it even more of a monstrosity.

I put this in another comment in the above:

* Better authentication

* More secure caching

* Improved ability to download large files

* Better methods to find alternate downloads locations

* Making each request contain less information about the sender

* Improved Metadata

I brain-dump a bit here: https://github.com/jimktrains/http_ng

1 comments

How is it that sensible comments like this keep getting downvoted?
I just wish people would actually discuss their opposition to any statement I made rather than just downvoting, but so it is.