http-pipelining – Tarik Billa

Difference between HTTP pipeling and HTTP multiplexing with SPDY

April 25, 2023 by Tarik

It’s not incorrect, but there is an important aspect it omits. HTTP requires that you deliver the entire response before any other request can proceed. What you’re showing in the diagram is correct in the sense that with SPDY we can finally break the “head of line” requirement and deliver the responses as they become … Read more

What are the disadvantage(s) of using HTTP pipelining?

April 20, 2023 by Tarik

Implementation bugs For pipelining to work, responses must come back in the order they were requested. A naive server implementation might just send the response as soon as it has been calculated. If multiple requests are sent in parallel, and the first request one takes longer to process (e.g. processing a larger image), then the … Read more