Google has Mod_spdy, an Apache plugin that adds support for the Spdy protocol offers, donated to the open source community. The Apache Software Foundation manages from now the software and want the plugin to create default in upcoming releases.
Google introduced the Spdy protocol in 2009 with the aim of load of websites to accelerate. This fits the protocol under different compression and flow control. Also, encryption is enforced in the http alternative. After Chrome started also other major browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, Spdy support.
“Our goal was to control the growth and adoption of Spdy is to promote by the for Apache 2.2 users easier to do Spdy to install and enable on their websites, blogs Google-developer Matthew Steele. According to him, many popular sites worldwide Spdy today, including Twitter. “This seems to be the right time for the development of Mod_spdy as third-party add-on to cease, and instead the plugin is a core component of the Apache-httpd-server.”
Google has the code formally donated to the Apache Software Foundation, that the project from now on spend as part of the httpd codebase. The intention is to Mod_spdy fully part of Apache 2.4, and also part of version 2.6 and 3.0.
The influence of the Spdy protocol will only increase, as soon as the Internet Engineering Task Force http 2.0 issues. The organization has been working since 2012 to the new version of the http specification and will take account of Spdy from Google as a starting point. The standard this year are ready and will be rolled out alongside the existing http 1.1, which is the standard at the beginning of this month was updated.
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