Re: Header Size? Was: Our Schedule

In message <0356EBBE092D394F9291DA01E8D28EC201186D8A93@sem002pd.sg.iaea.org>, K
.Morgan@iaea.org writes:

>Could you achieve the same goal within the current spec by requiring the 
>route headers to come first and uncompressed in the first HEADERS frame of
>a stream?

Well, there's probably not much gained if they are still encrypted,
but yes, any movement towards the scheme I suggested will improve
performance.

>Are these headers you mentioned the only three proxies ever need to look at
> when forwarding requests?
>>        Host:
>>        URL sans query part  (or possibly:  URL up to first '/')
>>        (X-)Forwarded-For:

Well, proxied do the most weird things, but for the typical
load-balancer case, which is where the HTTP bandwidth is most
concentrated, those three are what's being looked at.

>What about forwarding responses back to the client? I imagine you would want
>to do a similar thing. Same headers?

In general load-balancers don't look at the response.  If they do it's
typically a very simple check of the status code, so that retries
can be done on failures (>= 400 or something)

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Received on Sunday, 1 June 2014 10:53:39 UTC