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TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 1, 2012 22:34 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

> and the speed of light, which has remained stubbornly constant.

Anyone has a patch for this? ;-)


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TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 2, 2012 0:39 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

Numerous more-pessimal patches exist in the literature; some assembly may be required. More-optimal is TBD for the time being and left as an exercise for the student.

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 2, 2012 23:28 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

For HTTP the patch is a SPDY-/HTTP/2-like protocol, the performance of HTTP is currently limited because it does not do multiplexing.

SPDY/2 is currently supported by Firefox, Chrome. An Apache module from Google, there is a beta patch from the nginx developers, node.js module, a Java server implementation and some beta C-client- and server-libraries and implementations.

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 9, 2012 6:11 UTC (Thu) by cvrebert (guest, #86030) [Link]

You're gonna have to wait until 2208 for that.

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