Twitter adds SPDY support to Netty(netty.io)

121 pointsby cgbystrom14 lat temu18 comments

http://netty.io/blog/2012/02/04/

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This is a big deal for sites that want to rival Google sites performance-wise. Especially now that it will be in Firefox 11 in addition to Chrome. It would be great if any of the popular proxy servers - like Nginx - also had support for it.

firemanx14 lat temu

Last I heard, it was in the works for NGinx:

https://twitter.com/#!/nginxorg/status/150112670966747137

bensummers14 lat temu

I presume that it doesn't support SNI (for SSL vhosts) as the underlying JVM doesn't support it for servers? (I couldn't see anything in the docs, and it says it uses the JVM's SSL support underneath.)

One of the Google chaps said that SPDY required SNI when it was originally announced, so I was hopeful for a while.

ivanr14 lat temu

Server Name Indication was added in Java 7, so I would expect that Netty supports it too, assuming you're running the latest version of the Java runtime.

bensummers14 lat temu

In the server as well as the client?

wbier14 lat temu

the missing piece is next protocol negotiation. we're working on releasing this code soon. expanded support in finagle (github.com/twitter/finagle) is also forthcoming.

tlrobinson14 lat temu

Cool, support seems to be picking up. Here's a list of implementations: http://dev.chromium.org/spdy

Nginx seems to be the big missing one. I think Mongrel2 would be a good fit too.

moonchrome14 lat temu

Yey ! I just wrote a server on top of Netty and figured out how to use SPDY to boost my performance but couldn't find SPDY implementation for Netty. Thank you twitter !

ww52014 lat temu

That's very cool. Netty is amazing already in term of performance. This just pushes it up another rung.

benmmurphy14 lat temu

i have an example of SPDY+Netty+NPN here: https://github.com/benmmurphy/netty_spdy_example

it works with chrome which is quite nice to see.

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