In an e-mail to a w3 mailing list has Facebook shown fully engaged to the spdy protocol to implement in his website. The social-networking site hopes with this implementation, a large speedups to achieve.
Facebook engineer Doug Beaver reports in an e-mail to a w3 mailing list that Facebook is busy with the implementation of the spdy protocol in its website. It also explains the engineer from why the company is not interested in the other two the http/2.0 proposals.
The spdy protocol is one of the proposals for a new http/2.0 implementation. With the spdy protocol, web pages faster and safer to load, thanks to a few additions to the old http protocol. Data connections are automatically gemultiplext, compressed and often encrypted. Servers can also be data push to clients without a request needs to be sent.
In the e-mail tells Beaver that Facebook demands to a new http implementation. So the protocol must, among other multiplexing, encryption at the transport layer, zero-latency upgrade, per-request flow control and server push support. For that reason, supports Facebook the spdy protocol, to the detriment of the other proposals for http/2.0 implementation. The company is also working on the spdy/v2 protocol already implement, because recent browsers, the protocol already support, so direct speed is obtained.
The new protocol is running on the production servers, but according to Beaver, the implementation is almost complete and has Facebook enough information to comment on the standard from the perspective of developers. Although the company is already in progress the current spdy protocol to implement, search for Facebook to improvements.
Twitter said in march already know the spdy protocol have been implemented and in use, and has responded to the demands of Facebook to the protocol. This explains Twitter from largely agree with the requirements of Facebook, but still question the benefits of the current implementation of the compressiefunctionaliteit.