HTTP header compression benchmark

Dear all,

I've recently published a benchmark for HTTP header compression based on captured
real-world HTTP traffic data.  The benchmark contains five sets of approximately
one million HTTP request and response headers.  Details on how the data was
collected, preprocessed, C code (generation, preprocessing and sample compressions
using gzip and bzip2), as well as some statistical data on the benchmarks are
all available at https://gnunet.org/httpbenchmark/.

It should be noted that these are not just raw HTTP headers, but request sequences.
So the benchmark will allow you to assess the performance of compression algorithms
that compress traffic for an entire SPDY/HTTP 2.0 session (differences, etc.) and
not just process each header in isolation.

I hope this will be useful for informed discussions on HTTP 2.0 header compression;
I'll be available for discussions on the benchmark at IETF 87.

Happy hacking!

Christian

Received on Saturday, 20 July 2013 17:54:48 UTC