Google badmouths HTTP, proposes SPDY as a speedy successor

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If you use Google Chrome you have actually been using it for ages. Most Google.com-based sites (Gmail, Search, ...) and Twitter all use SPDY automatically when using HTTPS.

To see when you're on a SPDY-powered site: use https://chrome.googl...jhmgnchggcjblin

Interesting, installed the extension to Chrome and for me Twitter and the Chrome Web Store (a Google site running over HTTPS) are both not running SPDY. GMail is though.

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Jason S. Global Moderator

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This is old news both Chrome and Firefox already use SPDY.

Firefox only supported it starting in v11. in v11 and v12, you have to manually enable it. it wont be enabled by default until v13.

my question is, how does one enable SPDY on their website? is this strictly limited to some Apache module right now? Can this be enabled on IIS-based sites either via IIS or some webconfig file?

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+Ryster Subscriber²

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What's another proprietary standard?

Contradiction in terms my friend. It's not a standard if it's proprietary, and it's not proprietary if it's a standard.

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Contradiction in terms my friend. It's not a standard if it's proprietary, and it's not proprietary if it's a standard.

well not entirely true, it is, but it isn't ;)

there are several proprietary standards all ready, like Doc. which is considered a standard for a lot of things despite being proprietary.

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Firefox only supported it starting in v11. in v11 and v12, you have to manually enable it. it wont be enabled by default until v13.

my question is, how does one enable SPDY on their website? is this strictly limited to some Apache module right now? Can this be enabled on IIS-based sites either via IIS or some webconfig file?

It depends on the server used, Apache needs a module, node.js has libraries for it, nginx is gaining support soon-ish, etc. And for IIS you'll probably need a proxy solution (like nginx when it's released) for quite a while.

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lol I guess you didn't catch the sarcasm part about the tin foil hat.

You really need to use /s because we have no idea that you are being sarcastic as oppose to actually thinking that, we don't know that you also find it so utterly ridiculous in your head that nobody could mistake it for anything but sarcasm. It has to be REALLY stupidly over the top to get away with making a sarcastic post without /s

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Jason S. Global Moderator

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Will have to see if I can enable that on my web server to see if it speeds things up. :)

Whenever I read SPDY, I think of "Spidy" as in the Spider nickname.

yes! in my head i always say Spidy and not Speedy

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