Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support
by simonw on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @12:57PM
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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.
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Re:Facebook Adds SPDY Support
by apendleton on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:36PM
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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).