Re: [TLS] Request for review: Next Protocol Negotiation Extension

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 19 August 2010 14:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Request for review: Next Protocol Negotiation Extension
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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> writes:

>When I'm at home (DSL ~2500/600), I can boost the rendering of pages by 2x
>using Adblock plus (Firefox).  And NoScripts give me some more performance
>back (but requires more "personal training" in distinguishing friend and
>foe). There's is likely no amount of additional(!) wrapping you could add
>with WebSockets+NPN that comes even close to that.

Similar results were reported by the HP folks who implemented outgoing
connection-throttling as a mean of combating malware, they found that web
pages loaded much faster because all the additional crap wasn't being pulled
in alongside the actual content.

Peter.