Yeah, but you don't need SPDY as much on the application servers as you do the f...

wycats · on Dec 4, 2011

Apache already has a mod-spdy (https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/), and varnish is in wait-and-see mode (https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-misc/2... "SPDY isn't even an official IETF draft yet")

I agree. Getting SPDY into Apache, ngnix, varnish, squid etc. would be all we need to get the benefits of this new protocol.

The front-end SPDY server could then communicate via HTTP via a low-latency connection.

dhotson · on Dec 4, 2011

Excellent point. A SPDY->HTTP proxy or SPDY support in tools like perlbal, squid and Varnish would go a long way.

pingswept · on Dec 4, 2011

Nginx reports that it is in the works, but no ETA: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,217299,217325