Re: HTTP header compression benchmark

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sun, 28 July 2013 06:57 UTC

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Thanks, Christian.

Could you give a short (~15 minute) summary at our Wednesday meeting?

Regards,


On Jul 20, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I've recently published a benchmark for HTTP header compression based on captured
> real-world HTTP traffic data.  The benchmark contains five sets of approximately
> one million HTTP request and response headers.  Details on how the data was
> collected, preprocessed, C code (generation, preprocessing and sample compressions
> using gzip and bzip2), as well as some statistical data on the benchmarks are
> all available at https://gnunet.org/httpbenchmark/.
> 
> It should be noted that these are not just raw HTTP headers, but request sequences.
> So the benchmark will allow you to assess the performance of compression algorithms
> that compress traffic for an entire SPDY/HTTP 2.0 session (differences, etc.) and
> not just process each header in isolation.
> 
> I hope this will be useful for informed discussions on HTTP 2.0 header compression;
> I'll be available for discussions on the benchmark at IETF 87.
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Christian
> 

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