<div>Hi Guys, google developed a http replacement / improvement called SPDY <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; ">(pronounced "SPeeDY" :-) )</span></div><div><br>
</div><div>Its now active in chrome : ( link to the unfortunately purchased then shutdown by aol blog : downloadsquad )</div><div><br></div><a href="http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/11/google-chrome-now-uses-spdy-http-replacement-halves-page-load-t/">http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/11/google-chrome-now-uses-spdy-http-replacement-halves-page-load-t/</a><div>
<br></div><div>and here is googles info about it : </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper">http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper</a></div><div><br></div><div>One question that might be most common that it answers : </div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><b>Q: Is SPDY a replacement for HTTP?</b></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: normal; ">A: No. SPDY replaces some parts of HTTP, but mostly augments it. At the highest level of the application layer, the request-response protocol remains the same. SPDY still uses HTTP methods, headers, and other semantics. But SPDY overrides other parts of the protocol, such as connection management and data transfer formats.</span></b></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></div>
</span></div><div><br></div><div>So my question is ( might be quid a huge ask), is, does anybody plan to add this to mouciweb ( and therefore webmachine ) </div><div><br></div><div>I am guessing its a bit of a chicken/egg seniario but if it has google behind it that may help adoption, and it may bring dev's to erlang if its (one of) the first to support it!</div>
<div><br></div><div>It might also improve rest applications ( like riak ) in the future too</div><div><br></div><div>If not then hopefully a few more people are now aware of its existence after this email :-)</div><div><br>
</div><div>James</div>