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Real data and musings on the performance of networks, servers, protocols, and their related folks.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

The Benefits of HTTPS for DNS

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DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is entering the last call (right now Working Group, soon IETF wide) stage of IETF standardization. A common discussion ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

On The Merits of QUIC for HTTP

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I am often asked why the Internet HTTP community is working on an IETF based QUIC when HTTP/2 (RFC 7540) is less than 2 years old. Th...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Cache-Control: immutable

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About one year ago our friends at Facebook brought an interesting issue to the IETF HTTP Working Group - a lot (20%!) of their transaction...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Thanks Google for Open Source TCP Fix!

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The Google transport networking crew (QUIC, TCP, etc..) deserve a shout out for identifying and fixing a nearly decade old Linux kernel TCP ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Brotli Content-Encoding for Firefox 44

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The best way to make data appear to move faster over the Web is to move less of it and lossless compression has always been a core tenet of ...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Opportunistic Encryption For Firefox

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Firefox 37 brings more encryption to the web through opportunistic encryption of some http:// based resources. It will be released the week ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

HTTP/2 is Live in Firefox

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The Internet is chirping loudly today with news that draft-17 of the HTTP/2 specification has been anointed proposed standard. huzzah! Some ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

HTTP/2 Dependency Priorities in Firefox 37

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Next week Firefox 35 will be in general release, and Firefox 37 will be promoted to the Developer Edition channel (aka Firefox Aurora). HT...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Firefox gecko API for HTTP/2 Push

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HTTP/2 provides a mechanism for a server to push both requests and responses to connected clients. Up to this point we've used that as ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Proxy Connections over TLS - Firefox 33

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There have been a bunch of interesting developments over the past few months in Mozilla Platform Networking that will be news to some folks....
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

On the Application of STRINT to HTTP/2

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I participated for two days last week in the joint W3C/IETF (IAB) workshop on Strengthening the Internet against Pervasive Monitoring (aka S...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

SSL Everywhere for HTTP/2 - A New Hope

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Recently the IETF working group on HTTP met in Berlin, Germany and discussed the concept of mandatory to offer TLS for HTTP/2, offered by Ma...
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