Google is preparing a web accelerator – Protocol SPDY
Google is known that although the core of its business involves the services of search and related advertising, the company tries to expand its presence in various fields of high-tech industry and the Internet in particular, offer their own innovative ideas. At this time the search giant drew attention to the very foundations – the protocol data transfers between client computers and servers. As you know, the browser and Web server to “communicate” via the protocol HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol – Hypertext Transfer Protocol). But because the current version of HTTP adopted 10 years ago, sooner or later had to get up the question of its modernization. Google announced the development of SPDY ( “speedy”) – a draft standard connection, which is designed to accelerate the exchange of data on the web.
Google is not going to be totally replaced by HTTP, but rather to expand its functionality. In other words, “http://” does not turn into “spdy ://”. Expected to increase the speed of information transmission, but the question – how? A series of tests with Chrome browser showed that loading “top 25″ according to Google sites are 55% faster using SPDY. Of course, this laboratory results, which need to be tested and confirmed in the real world – with different software, operating systems, etc. But given that the development is at an early stage, a two-fold increase in speed even under ideal testing conditions – pretty good. Documentation on the project can be found here.
As noted by Google, SPDY will be compatible with current Web-based applications, as far as possible. From the perspective of business or application server API does not have to change. The semantics of request and response headers will be saved. SPDY will serve as a “layer” between the application layer: HTTP, TCP and regulate the transfer of data streams. This latest article brought to you by Computers Internet Blog.
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