[Ziproxy-devel] Google SPDY protocol - of interest to Ziproxy?

[Andrew L. <al...@gm...>]

http://www.chromium.org/spdy

As part of the "Let's make the web faster"
<http://code.google.com/speed/> initiative,
we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency
of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an
application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed
specifically for minimal latency.  In addition to a specification of the
protocol, we have developed a SPDY-enabled Google Chrome browser and
open-source web server. In lab tests, we have compared the performance of
these applications over HTTP and SPDY, and have observed up to 64%
reductions in page load times in SPDY. We hope to engage the open source
community to contribute ideas, feedback, code, and test results, to make
SPDY the next-generation application protocol for a faster web.
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SPDY Proxy One potential use for SPDY is to provide fast, secure access to a
proxy.  For instance, if we had a forward proxy which took SPDY requests
from the client and could issue HTTP requests to the web, then we could
leverage the benefits of SPDY over the Client->Proxy link without needing to
upgrade the entire web.  Some environments where this could be particularly
useful include:

   - Mobile networks, where RTTs are very high
   - Public networks, where local WiFi or other protocols may be insecure,
   but SPDY connections to a secure proxy could add a layer of protection.

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