Re: Choosing a header compression algorithm

There are two obvious strategies here: What we do now, and using what SPDY
does today (share connections if the certs match and DNS resolution of the
new hostname overlaps with those of the current connection).

-=R


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, RUELLAN Herve
<Herve.Ruellan@crf.canon.fr>wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net]
> > Sent: lundi 25 mars 2013 06:56
> > To: RUELLAN Herve
> > Cc: Roberto Peon; ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group
> > Subject: Re: Choosing a header compression algorithm
> >
> >
> > On 23/03/2013, at 5:04 AM, RUELLAN Herve <Herve.Ruellan@crf.canon.fr>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I think it would be good to move this from the compressors to the
> > streamifier. In addition, it would be interesting to look at a more
> realistic
> > streamifier that could for example unshard hosts (expecting that HTTP/2.0
> > will remove the sharding currently done by server developers).
> >
> > Right now, it combines all requests to the same TLD (according to the
> Public
> > Suffix List) into a single "connection." Do you have a suggestion for
> how to do
> > it better?
>
> I think this should provide some "realistic" results as a starting point.
> Depending on what we want to measure, we may want to refine this a bit.
>
> Hervé.
>
> > I've just pushed a quick and dirty fix to use a new instance of each
> > compressor for each connection; the results are pretty even between
> > headerdiff and delta2, with a small increase in each:
> >
> > * TOTAL: 5948 req messages
> >                                        size  time | ratio min   max   std
> >                         http1     3,460,925  0.18 | 1.00  1.00  1.00
>  0.00
> >   delta2 (max_byte_size=4096)       707,901 11.87 | 0.20  0.03  0.83
>  0.15
> >      headerdiff (buffer=4096)       960,106  1.65 | 0.28  0.01  0.96
>  0.23
> >
> > * TOTAL: 5948 res messages
> >                                        size  time | ratio min   max   std
> >                         http1     2,186,162  0.28 | 1.00  1.00  1.00
>  0.00
> >   delta2 (max_byte_size=4096)       622,837 12.86 | 0.28  0.02  1.22
>  0.13
> >      headerdiff (buffer=4096)       596,290  3.65 | 0.27  0.02  0.92
>  0.18
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
> >
> >
>
>