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willvarfar on March 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seamless SPDY support for existing web servers (SP...

Imagine nginx spoke SPDY. Now replace nginx with this new proxy. Now imagine that its talking keep-alive HTTP on the inside.

The gateway can even send the incoming requests between many servers and aggregate the results and send them back to the client out of order, as per SDPY

jganetsk on March 23, 2012 [–]

I agree with you. My point was that a reverse proxy that does not speak SPDY on the outside would suffer from head of line blocking.

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