nginx spdy server hint

Valentin V. Bartenev ne at vbart.ru
Tue Jul 24 19:33:06 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 24 July 2012 22:55:57 Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2012 22:36:19 CM Fields wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification.
> > 
> > When I read through the SPDY documents up to version 4 I saw no
> > mention of server hints at all. I thought I must have missed something
> > since every news or review article I read mentions SDPY hints, but no
> > one ever had an example.
> 
> Seems it's a browser specific feature. It isn't related to SPDY, or nginx.
> 
>  * http://http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988
>  * https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ
> 
> You can try:
> 
>     add_header Link "</images/big.jpeg>; rel=prefetch";
> 
> with Firefox.
> 

I've just test it myself. It works well with my Firefox 14 on both HTTP and
HTTPS (pure or over SPDY). But I also found that Firebug doesn't show these 
prefetched requests on the Net tab.

And I had no luck with Chromium 21.

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev



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