SPDY Indicator and HTTP/2

[Alan Orth]

So check this out, SPDY a protocol from Google which lives on TLS, and is basically what HTTP/2 is being based on.  Using this extension in Firefox or Chrome, you can see if a site is using SPDY and (surprise!) HTTP/2.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicator/

I guess Firefox 34.0 enabled HTTP/2's current draft, because now I'm seeing a bunch of servers that support it already.  Google.com, twitter.com, etc.  Pretty cool!

Here are some more resources about TLS and HTTP/2:

- https://istlsfastyet.com/
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15H8Sj-Zol1tcum0CSylhmXns5r7cvNFtzYrcwAzkTjM/present#slide=id.g12f3ee71d_10
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OGulyC9grEXw-wW2VdZdZ99YNO3l3H2l_wgwxEG4GOM/present#slide=id.p19

Enjoy!

Also note, the nginx TLS configs for my blogs is available on GitHub with full commit history and comments:

https://github.com/alanorth/ansible_blog/blob/master/roles/nginx/templates/https.j2

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[Dennis Mungai]

Excellent!

These NGINX TLS configs are a solid start.

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[James Oguya]

on the same note, we should also have a look at QUIC(Quick UDP Internet Connections) - an experimental protocol developed by Google aimed at reducing web latency over that of TCP.

http://www.chromium.org/quic

HTTPie, a cURL like tool for humans, can prove useful in getting http headers from http servers

http://httpie.org

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[John Ombagi]

Nice! Nice! :)

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