Questions tagged [spdy]

SPDY is an experimental protocol for multiplexing multiple, concurrent streams (typically HTTP request/response streams) over a single TCP connection.

SPDY is an experimental protocol for multiplexing multiple, concurrent streams (typically HTTP request/response streams) over a single TCP connection. SPDY is part of the HTTP 2.0 initiative led by the HTTPbis working group.

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Has anyone managed to get SPDY to work behind an Amazon ELB?

We've been using nginx compiled with the spdy module for some time now and despite only being draft 2 of the specs are quite pleased with its performance. However we now have the need to horizontally scale and have put our EC2 instances behind an…
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How to set up SPDY Protocol over Nginx?

I have a rails app and want to set up the google SPDY protocol support. But after installing Nginx with SPDY patch and then enabling the spdy in virtual host it does not allow me to restart the nginx instead throws following error. Restarting nginx:…
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SPDY Head of Line blocking

I'm having troubles with understanding how SPDY can solve HOL blocking. Quote from: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch02.html#TCP_HOL To understand why that is the case, recall that every TCP packet carries a unique sequence…
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Google's Volley lib with Authenticated Appengine endpoints?

Google recently released Volley - a framework for handling network requests on Android. My question is can/should this lib be used with Appengine's cloud endpoints? The endpoints give you libraries to handle all the networking and authentication,…
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How to implement SPDY with Rails 3.2.2 on Heroku?

I'm hearing that SPDY is where things are likely headed, and I'd like to try to use it with a Rails site I'm running. I haven't been able to find any tutorials however, and the one gem I found doesn't seem to work (everyone is reporting the same…
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How to detect if a server is using SPDY

Any way to detect if a remote website supports SPDY and what version it is? Something I can use from the command line like a bash script. Tried sending custom User-Agent headers with curl but can't get any kind of response headers that would help…
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SPDY - without TLS?

I'm trying to implement SPDY (with Node.js) for use on a high latency connection. Now SPDY uses TLS encryption and this would increase the packet length - something I'm trying to avoid. Is there such thing as a SPDY implementation without the TLS…
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Can I enable HTTP/2 on OpenShift?

Can I enable HTTP/2 for my website hosted on OpenShift? I know you can use CloudFlare as a proxy, then it will provide support for HTTP/2. But I am interested in is the ability to configure precisely my apps on OpenShift.
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Is Chrome still supporting SPDY?

I read Chrome dropped SPDY support in 2016: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/02/transitioning-from-spdy-to-http2.html However some requests in devtools still show SPDY as the protocol: Is it really SPDY or it's devtool's display issue? If it's the…
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Why did Google.com switch to SPDY (HTTP/2+QUIC/35) instead of HTTP/2

Several days ago I saw Google.com was using HTTP/2, but yesterday I became aware that Google.com had switched to SPDY (HTTP/2+QUIC/35). Two questions: As you know, HTTP/2 extends SPDY, why did Google.com rollback to SPDY? What's the difference…
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What will happen if server implement spdy/3 while browser only support spdy/2?

What will happen if I add support for spdy/3 on my server, while my users only have spdy/2 in their browsers? Will the protocol degrade gracefully to spdy/2 or it will only use plain https?
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Can RESTful web service benefit from SPDY protocol?

I am designing a RESTful web service. It will include some GET and POST requests. I am a bit confused whether the web service can benefit from SPDY protocol. I intend to use Ruby on Rails for the implementation. Are there any gems that support SPDY?
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Website OK on Firefox but not on Safari (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 303) neither Chrome (net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR)

Since some days, my website won't load on Safari nor Chrome on Mac OS X (at home nor on my clients computers). It's working well on Firefox (Mac OS & Windows) and IE / Edge, but not Chrome (Windows). It was well working before that and was not…
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Supporting Server Sent Events with Netty HTTP2 implementation

I am using Netty 4.1-Beta6 version. I want to support the use case where the HTTP2 server should be able to push events to the HTTP2 client on an existing connection - this could be an alarm or timer event from the cloud which needs to be propagated…
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SPDY "Hello server" with Jetty

I'm trying to setup a minimal HTTP over SPDY server with Jetty, for testing purposes. I'm working on this code: import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import…
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