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.