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Re: [TLS] Bakeoffs

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Thu, 17 April 2014 16:59 UTC

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Patrick McManus wrote:
> 
> HTTP/2 is important stuff, and helps hide part of the problem, but the 
> latency issue continues to be an issue for HTTP over TLS use cases. Time 
> to first byte of course  ...

Have any server operators tried using a small-ish (somewhat less than 1500
bytes) TLS record size to reduce time-to-first-byte at the browser?

What were the results?

Mike

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