The HTTP 2.0 War has Just Begun

#stirling Microsoft takes on Google as the war to win the standard for an overdue overhaul of HTTP starts to pick up steam RFC 1945 – “Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0” – was published in ...
Published Apr 11, 2012
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May 30, 2012

Nagesh, 

 

WebSocket is going to run into the same issues as SPDY (and as you point out, has similar benefits). The biggest difference being the lack of headers in WebSockets, which is going to have a much bigger impact on infrastructure (network and server) as all objects must be inspected to determine their content-types... 

 

I have discussed HTML5/WebSockets in the past here: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/oops-html5-does-it-again and here: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/html5-web-sockets-changes-the-scalability-game

 

but you raise a valid point, it may be time to compare to SPDY and S+M, which are similar in core premises. 

 

Thanks! 

Lori

 

ed. LZ. updated poorly translated links.