On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp
<phk@...> wrote:
In message <CANmPAYH38bbDJtcDLxoHcTSZ06685M30LC9DP7bMcUoJu5j4ig@...>
, Peter Lepeska writes:
>Since a SPDY session is associated with a single TCP connection, we can
>assume all GETs on that connection are being routed to the same web server.
I think that is an unwarranted assumption.
Many sites today will deliver static content like images from one
set of servers and dynamic content from another (typically larger)
set of servers, and some kind of "http-router" will split the
requests on the TCP connection up between them.
Just to be clear, is this "http-router" a reverse proxy that terminates the TCP connection and forwards HTTP requests onward to backend application servers? Because if so, then I think the core of Peter's point still stands. The "http-router" can handle all the header compression/decompression for SPDY.
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