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Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support by pbiggar on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @12:53PM (#5332562)
Is there a list anywhere of all of the technologies that people use in a web stack and what the status of their SPDY support is? For example, we use Jetty, nginx, and ELB, and I imagine they all need to support spdy before we can allow our users to.
Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support by simonw on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @12:57PM (#5332601)
I don't think they all need to support SPDY - as long as the proxy closest to the users supports it the stuff behind can run on regular HTTP (unless you're doing websockets stuff). nginx for example has a SPDY module, so if you put that in front of Jetty you can serve SPDY without any problems.
Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support by apendleton on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:36PM (#5333703)
It also depends which SPDY features you want to take advantage of. SPDY has content push support, for example, so if you're serving a page and know which assets it will require, you can serve those without waiting for the client to receive your initial response and request them. So far as I know, the nginx SPDY proxy doesn't try to do any of this (and it probably doesn't make sense for it to do so).
Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support by gregr401 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:46PM (#5332945)
If you're using ELB as the parent mentioned, SPDY wont be viable (yet).
Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support by billyhoffman on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:20PM (#5332758)
I've wanted to add something like this to spdycheck.org. Right now I know of mod_spdy with Apache, and nginx has it too. Hosting providers are backing it in as well (Dreamhost has it as a option, with mod_pagespeed as well which is pretty cool). Hosted CMS solutions are another good place where this is happening. Wordpress.com provides it. I seem to remember hearing that Tomcat/Jetty has support, but I don't honestly know enough about how those frameworks plug into web servers to know if they can in fact at something like SPDY into the HTTP stack.

Anyone else have a list?