Google SPDY protocol could boost web speeds
Published: 13 Nov 2009 08:39 GMT
As part of its continual push to speed up the web, Google is taking a look at one of the most basic connections: the conversation between web servers and browsers.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) has long been the standard that allows web servers and computer browsers to understand each other, transforming the bits and bytes served up from a web publisher into a web page in your browser. But Google announced on Thursday that it is working on project called SPDY (pronounced 'speedy') that could make everything faster than HTTP currently allows.
"We want to continue building on the web's tradition of experimentation and optimisation to further support the evolution of websites and browsers. So over the last few months, a few of us here at Google have been experimenting with new ways for web browsers and servers to speak to each other, resulting in a prototype web server and Google Chrome client with SPDY support," wrote Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon, software engineers at Google, in a blog post.
For more on this story, see Google's SPDY protocol could ramp up Web speeds on CNET News.
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