Re: SPDY Header Frames

You are welcome. From implementing a WAP gateway the server part seem to 
work as well, although the traffic was not as high as today's requirements.

Interestingly there was also a multiplexing implemented in the layer 
below (Wireless Transaction Protocol working over UDP) and the gateway 
had to translate this to HTTP.

Regards,
Roland


On 14.07.2012 07:44, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:36:05AM +0200, Roland Zink wrote:
>> A similar binary encoding for HTTP headers is used in the WAP (Wireless
>> Application Protocol). The goal there was to reduce the number of bytes
>> so there are more optimization on size but skipping of values is a bit
>> more difficult. If anybody is interested the full specification can be
>> found at
>> http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/wap/wap-230-wsp-20010705-a.pdf.
>> The header encoding is in section 8.4.
> Wow, very instructive, thanks Roland! Much more work has been done there
> than what we proposed in our draft. And this one was implemented in many
> ridiculously powered devices, which means that it's not that complicated
> to implement. With a bit of refreshing, that could be used as a basis for
> future encoding works.
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>

Received on Saturday, 14 July 2012 20:17:21 UTC