On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Henri Gomez <henri.go...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Any comments on including the experimental SPDY support ( > >> http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol ) ? > >> I know we had countless debates on JK2 and http proxies, but some extra > code > >> to try out doesn't hurt :-) > > > > We need a httpd module (like mod_proxy_ajp) for that :-) > > mod_proxy_spdy ? :-) > > Very interesting thread. > > BTW, tomcat-lite is still here ? > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/modules/tomcat-lite/ > > Yes. BTW - if you use maven, it'll download, build and test against tomcat6 jars ( since tomcat7 is not in maven ). You can use lite as a connector with both 6 and 7. As a client library or http server or subset-of-servlet engine it doesn't depend on anything in tomcat. The only deps on tomcat are the connector. ( of course - a lot is still missing, as I mentioned connection management/timeouts/limits need to be added) Re. mod_proxy_spdy - yes, it would be great if someone could do this. One missing feature (mentioned - but not specified yet ) - is negotiating a switch, starting as http and switching to spdy if both ends supports it. So if you have the spdy code for mod_proxy_spdy - you could also try to hook it in the normal HTTP connector. What spdy does: - real long-lived connection - with multiplexed requests, and no connection close if a HTTP connection is aborted. - back-channel from server to client - would help with all the load-balancing ( for real clients will help in a lot of ajax-stuff ) - some initial negotiation - we can extend it to do some auth / config - header and body compression / ssl - the spec seems to have them as mandatory, but we don't have to implement it exactly as is, there are flag bits It's certainly not perfect - but not too bad either. I have my doubts about how it'll work in real world, with proxies and firewalls - but for reverse-proxy and internal use it's better than the current jk and I think better than a plain http proxy. Costin ( disclaimer: I don't work on spdy, it's a big company - I just saw the announcement and seemed a good fit for tomcat ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
