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Re:An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime by ck2 on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @02:06AM (#5516680)
I realize http is extremely well known and documented so it's relatively easy for backend communications but I've always wondered how efficient it actually is considering how old the standard is.
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Re:An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime by buzzkills on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @02:42AM (#5516768)
It's actually fairly good now that most of the improvements in 1.1 can be used with browser support like pipelining, compression, keep-alives and so on. However it isn't perfect SPDY is better still as it allows for things like muxing and pre-emptive resource downloading.
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