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Connection Reuse for Multiple Hostnames and for Fast Redirect
draft-safruti-httpbis-connection-reuse-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Ido Safruti
Last updated 2012-12-17 (Latest revision 2012-06-15)
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Abstract

This document describes a suggested enhancement to HTTP, in which a user-agent and a server can use a single connection to exchange requests/responses for multiple requested hostnames for which the server is authorized to serve. This enhancement suggests that user- agents will prefer to re-use an existing connection if it can be used to other hosts, and presents methods for a server to announce hosts that are served by it, as well as a mechanism for the user-agent to validate that the server is indeed trusted to serve this hosts. This is highly relevant when the server is actually a surrogate (like in a case of a CDN server), or in multi-hosts hosting environments, where the same server serves multiple hostnames/domains and can improve performance by the reuse of established and already optimized connections.

Authors

Ido Safruti

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