Re: TLS at transport level vs stream multiplexing and aggregation (http "routers")

In message <20131117225637.GD18577@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
>On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 02:30:03PM -0800, Roberto Peon wrote:

>I would personally like to see encryption used only on what *needs*
>to be encrypted so that "routing" HTTP doesn't require decrypting
>for most standard cases. We're not there yet...

That would be one of the best ways HTTP/2.0 could improve
performance over HTTP/1.1...

Routing encrypted transactions is perfectly feasible, we just
have to define a non-encrypted routable envelope (Host: + non-query
part of URL).


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Received on Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:07:13 UTC