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I've been working on implementing SPDY as an experiment in Firefox lately. We'll have to see how it plays out, but so far I really l...

I've made a living dealing with fast networks and servers that run at really impressive transaction rates using all manner of nifty inte...

Every once in a while I'm still surprised at the potential upside of pipelines . I stumbled across a great example recently: Women In...

Parallelism helps when It hides network idleness during TCP Handshakes though persistent connections help with this too. It hides network ...

The firefox http connection implementation, and most others I have seen, binds the http connection and the tcp connection together 1 to 1 so...

You don't see a lot of HTTP Content-MD5 response headers, but I just discovered some piece of code that generates unpadded base 64 versi...

As you may know, I've been on a little odyssey to make pipelining safe, fast , and aggressive. I've got a dozen patches for Firefox...

When choosing between more than 1 idle persistent connection FF <= 4.0 goes with a FIFO approach. I was thinking about ways to tune this....

Not all packet loss is created equal. In particular, losing a SYN can really ruin your day - or at least the next 3 seconds which can feel l...

This post provides some performance measurements of my HTTP pipeline patches for Firefox. The key benefits of pipelining are reduced tran...

I have been working on a set of patches to revamp the Firefox HTTP pipeline implementation. The objective is to provide a fast and robust i...

For the past few months I've been on a personal quest to implement a safe and effective HTTP pipelining strategy for Mozilla Firefox. Th...