HTTP entries
WS-REST (heh, heh)
If you haven’t seen it already, check out the Call for Papers for the First International Workshop on RESTful Design (WS-REST 2010), where I’m on the program committee, along with...
published on Friday, January 15 2010 ( 1 comment )
HTTP + Politics = ?
Australia has apparently decided, through its elected leaders, to filter its own Internet connection. Since many, many other people are discussing whether this is advisable or indeed effective, I’ll...
published on Wednesday, December 16 2009 ( 3 comments )
Will HTTP/2.0 Happen After All?
A couple of nights ago, I had a casual chat with Google’s Mike Belshe, who gave me a preview of how their “Let’s make the Web faster” effort looks...
published on Friday, November 13 2009 ( 6 comments )
Traffic Server
A long time ago*, the word in high-performance proxy-caching was Inktomi’s Traffic Server. It was so fast it was referred to being “carrier grade” and this could be said...
published on Friday, October 30 2009 ( 6 comments )
RED gets a blog
Just FYI, for those interested: RED now has a blog detailing news and other developments. I’ll still post about it here occaisionally, but most RED-related things are going over...
published on Sunday, July 12 2009
The Resource Expert Droid
A (very) long time ago, I wrote the Cacheability Engine to help people figure out how a Web cache would treat their sites. It has a few bugs, but...
published on Thursday, June 25 2009 ( 15 comments )
面向站长和网站管理员的Web缓存加速指南
The caching tutorial is now available in Chinese, courtesy of Che Dong (and apologies for taking so long in linking to it!). Norwegian should be coming soon......
published on Wednesday, June 17 2009 ( 1 comment )
What to Look For in a HTTP Proxy/Cache
Part of my job is maintaining Yahoo!’s build of Squid and supporting its users, which use it to serve everything from the internal Web services that make sites go...
published on Friday, June 12 2009 ( 3 comments )
Opera Turbo
HTTP performance is a hot topic these days, so it’s interesting that Opera has announced a “turbo” feature in Opera 10 Beta; Ever felt a Web site was loading...
published on Friday, June 5 2009 ( 20 comments )
Most Revealing Google Wave Comment
Everybody’s atwitter (yeah, sue me) about the Google Wave developer preview. Lots of new stuff there, but for me the most revealing comment, almost a throwaway, was here: Did...
published on Friday, May 29 2009 ( 7 comments )
Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web
I had a lovely holiday weekend in Canberra with the family, without Web access. Perhaps I’ll blog about that soon — Canberra being in my opinion one of the...
published on Tuesday, April 14 2009 ( 30 comments )
Caching When You Least Expect it
There’s a rule of thumb about when a HTTP response can be cached; the Caching Tutorial says: If the response’s headers tell the cache not to keep it, it...
published on Tuesday, February 24 2009 ( 5 comments )
Stop it with the X- Already!
Sometimes, it seems like every time somebody has a great idea for a new HTTP header, media type, or pretty much any other protocol element, they do the same...
published on Wednesday, February 18 2009 ( 19 comments )
Dev-Friendly Web Caching
Ryan Tomayko announces Rack::Cache, a HTTP cache for Ruby’s generic Web API; The basic goal is standards-based HTTP caching that scales down to the early stages of a project,...
published on Monday, October 27 2008 ( 4 comments )
/site-meta
Metadata discovery is a nagging problem that’s been hanging around the Web for a while. There have been a few stabs at this problem (including at least one by...
published on Thursday, October 16 2008 ( 17 comments )
The WS-Empire Strikes Back... feebly
Here’s a gem on a little-used mailing list: As most of you know, over the last several years fairly good progress has been made on standardizing Web services. Many...
published on Friday, July 4 2008 ( 9 comments )
The Pitfalls of Debugging HTTP
Some folks at work were having problems debugging HTTP with LWP’s command-line GET utility; it turned out that it was inserting Link headers — HTTP headers, mind you —...
published on Thursday, May 22 2008 ( 25 comments )
Moving Beyond Methods in REST
Having complained before about the sad state of HTTP APIs, I’m somewhat happy to say that people seem to be getting it, producing more capable server-side and client-side tools...
published on Thursday, March 20 2008 ( 11 comments )
DAV WTF?
Not many people that I know outside of IETF circles realise that a new *DAV effort has started up; CardDAV. An address book access protocol leveraging the vCard data...
published on Monday, March 3 2008 ( 4 comments )
Another Kind of HTTP Negotiation
Here’s one that I’ve been wondering about for a while, for the LazyWeb (HTTP Geek Edition); PUTs and POSTs can result in the creation of new resources, or changes...
published on Wednesday, February 6 2008 ( 25 comments )
Watching WADL (and other rambling thoughts)
I’m following the discussion of RESTful Web description in general, and WADL in particular, with both difficulty and interest (see Dare, Patrick and Joe’s thoughts for a nice contrast)....
published on Monday, January 21 2008 ( 1 comment )
Cache Channels Beta
The stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error extensions aren’t the only fiddling we’ve been doing with the HTTP caching model. Now that Squid 2.7 is starting to see daylight, I can explain...
published on Friday, January 4 2008 ( 4 comments )
Two HTTP Caching Extensions
We use caching extensively inside Yahoo! to improve scalability, latency and availability for back-end HTTP services, as I’ve discussed before. However, there are a few situations where the plain...
published on Wednesday, December 12 2007 ( 16 comments )
Why Revise HTTP?
I haven’t talked about it here much, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last year and a half working with people in the IETF to...
published on Sunday, December 9 2007 ( 9 comments )
WADL Documentation XSLT Updated
I've updated the WADL documentation stylesheet, primarily to; Fix a bug with finding and displaying XML Schema Make it compatible with xsltproc (and hopefully most other XSLT1.0 processors that...
published on Friday, November 2 2007
5005
Feed Paging and Archiving (nee Feed History) has finally made it to a standards-track RFC. For many non-traditional (read: non-blog) applications of Atom, I think archived feeds in particular...
published on Saturday, September 8 2007 ( 3 comments )
ETags, ETags, ETags
I’ve been hoping to avoid this, but ETags seem to be popping up more and more often recently. For whatever reason, people latch onto them as a litmus test...
published on Tuesday, August 7 2007 ( 8 comments )
URI Templates Redux
URI Templates -01 is now an Internet-Draft. After sitting on the spec for a while and trying to figure out an elegant solution to the encoding problem, we decided...
published on Saturday, July 28 2007 ( 5 comments )
The State of Proxy Caching
A while back I wrote up the state of browser caching, after writing a quick-and-dirty XHR-based test page, with the idea that if people know how their content is...
published on Wednesday, June 20 2007 ( 13 comments )
Expires vs. max-age
I occasionally get a question from readers of the caching tutorial about whether to use the Expires header or Cache-Control: max-age to control a response’s freshness lifetime. Some people...
published on Tuesday, May 15 2007 ( 7 comments )
Squid is My Service Bus
The QCon presentation (slides) was ostensibly about how we use HTTP for services within Yahoo’s Media Group. When I started thinking about the talk, however, I quickly concluded that...
published on Sunday, April 29 2007 ( 6 comments )
Caching Tutorial Update
I’ve published a revision of the Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters, the first non-trivial edit in some time almost since I wrote it in 1998. That said, there...
published on Sunday, February 15 2004
Caching is often enough
I feel compelled to respond to Norm Walsh's thoughts on caching. It's important to distinguish between the capabilities of a specific product (such as WWWoffle) and the technology that it...
published on Saturday, June 28 2003
Tarawa
I've finally gotten sick enough of a project that I've been working on for waaaay too long to release it to the unsuspecting^H^H^H general public. Tarawa is, in short, a...
published on Monday, May 5 2003
HTTP header sniffing
LiveHTTPHeaders for Mozilla is the best HTTP header sniffer I've seen yet; up till now, I've been using WebTee, but for *most* purposes, this is much better. Enjoy....
published on Tuesday, April 8 2003