Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Thursday, 11 May 2017
How to Think About HTTP Status Codes
There’s more than a little confusion and angst out there about HTTP status codes. I’ve received more than a few e-mails (and IMs, and DMs) over the years from stressed-out developers (once at 2am, their time!) asking something like this:Thursday, 16 March 2017
The State of Browser Caching, Revisited
A long, long time ago, I wrote some tests using XmlHttpRequest to figure out how well browser caches behaved, and wrote up the results.Friday, 22 April 2016
Ideal HTTP Performance
The implicit goal for Web performance is to reduce end-user perceived latency; to get the page in front of the user and interactive as soon as possible.Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Alternative Services
The IESG has approved “HTTP Alternative Services” for publication as a Proposed Standard.Friday, 18 December 2015
Why 451?
Today, the IESG approved publication of “An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles”. It’ll be an RFC after some work by the RFC Editor and a few more process bits, but effectively you can start using it now.Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Will there be a Distributed HTTP?
One of the things that came up at the HTTP Workshop was “distributed HTTP” — i.e., moving the Web from a client/server model to a more distributed one. This week, Brewster Khale (of Archive.org fame) talked about similar thoughts on his blog and at CCC. If you haven’t seen that yet, I’d highly suggest watching the latter.Monday, 20 July 2015
Snowden Meets the IETF
Last night, we had a screening of CITIZENFOUR at the IETF meeting in Prague, and about 170 people showed up to see the movie about Edward Snowden’s relevations — information that led the IETF to declare such pervasive monitoring as an attack on the Internet itself.Monday, 15 June 2015
HTTP/2 Implementation Status
RFC7540 has been out for about a month, so it seems like a good time for a snapshot of where HTTP/2 implementation is at.Wednesday, 25 March 2015