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*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/SPDY Feature Wiki page]
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/SPDY Feature Wiki page]
*[http://www.chromium.org/spdy Chromium specification]
*[http://mbelshe.github.com/SPDY-Specification/draft-mbelshe-spdy-00.xml SPDY specification]
*[http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper SPDY whitepaper]
*[http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper SPDY whitepaper]



Revision as of 15:16, 21 December 2011

SPDY

Feature Status Dev Lead QA Lead Status
SPDY Landed in Firefox 11 Pat McManus Ioana Budnar In progress

Summary

  • SPDY is a transport protocol designed as a successor to HTTP as part of Google's "Let's make the web faster" initiative.
  • SPDY implementation wraps the existing HTTP implementation as a sort of in-browser proxy. This preserves all of the existing HTTP semantics and tools (e.g. firebug), while leveraging the on-the-wire benefits of SPDY.
  • This feature is targeted for Mozilla 11.

References

Use Cases

  • Users of high latency environments such as mobile should be improved page load times for pages with many resources.
  • Casual browsing will be more secure with respect to eavesdropping.
  • Servers should see reduced load.
  • Independent low latency traffic should see reduced queuing delays.

Test Cases

  • Test cases for this feature can be viewed [ here].

Important Bugs

  • 528288 - (SPDY) Implement SPDY protocol

Not Tested

  • SPDY over non-SSL.

Sign off Criteria

  • All test cases were run on the Firefox version the feature is targeted for (Firefox 11.0).
  • All the major bugs have been fixed.