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Re:Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY by spicyj on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:10AM (#6971150)
It's been good practice for years now to place static assets on a separate domain to reduce cookie traffic. In some cases, the website owner can't control which cookies are set on the root domain (e.g., Google Analytics sets cookies on the root, not on the subdomain the page is served from).

Doesn't sharing the root domain (jgc.org in this case) partially negate this advantage?

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Re:Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY by cloudflare on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:17AM (#6971176)
Yes, but SPDY does compression of headers and so the same cookie being sent should be compressed.
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Re:Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY by spicyj on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:23AM (#6971212)
On non-SPDY connections, it won't be, correct? Seems like the best approach might be to simply serve different static asset URLs based on User-Agent sniffing.
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Re:Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY by moot on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:19AM (#6971190)
Another example from 4chan: http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68794699432/small-things-a...
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