Google developing new protocol to speed up the Web
I have often thought that it is quite remarkable how well the methods have held up that were instituted at the beginning of the Web. Here we are, years later, and we are still basically using the initial designs.
However, the enormous increase in Internet traffic means that some of the old methods need updating. Google has announced that it is working on a way to make the Web faster. It’s rather technical but basically it is a replacement for the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) that Google calls “SPDY”. Google’s description of the research begins:
Today we’d like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced “SPeeDY”, an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster. SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression.
This project is still in the experimental stage and it’s a long road to becoming an accepted protocol (if it ever gets that far) but it certainly looks interesting.
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