Re: Performance implications of Bundling and Minification on HTTP/1.1

In message <0FB054DA-C596-4C5B-A008-13141034A5FA@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri
tes:

>> I agree that application level improvements have a bigger impact than 
>protocol level improvements. But I think that it'd be great for the 
>protocol to eliminate deficiencies for which application developers have 
>to work around (e.g. domain sharding). 

One of the biggest deficiencies in HTTP/1.x is the lack of a "session"
concept, which lead to the Cookie-Hack with all its pessimizing and
privacy-violating issues.

Even if used right (one cryptosigned session-identifier, all actual
data stored serverside) it has the sideeffect of blanket disabling
caching.

HTTP/2.0 should do better.

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Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 06:41:44 UTC