Re: teaching Rack to communicate over SPDY instead of HTTP

[Benjamin Wagener <bwagener@bwagener.de>]

On 17.06.2011 08:23, Graham Batty wrote:
> Rack doesn't really speak any protocols. Rack is an API for interfacing
> server software with applications. In order to have a rack app 'speak'
> SPDY, all that needs to happen is for a Rack-capable server to be able
> to speak SPDY and appropriately call the application.
> 
> In fact, in the Rack distribution there are already two non-HTTP
> protocol servers: CGI and FastCGI. SPDY is not really any different in
> nature than any of these. It supports some advanced features that would
> be difficult to work into the 1 request, 1 reply architecture of Rack,
> but even that's probably not insurmountable.
> 
> There appears to already be a Rack SPDY server, btw:
> https://github.com/romanbsd/spdy
> 
> I can't make any claims about how well it works, though. If you need
> this, you should probably give it a try.
> 
> Graham.

Thank you very much for your suggestion. When I read the code of Rack I
saw so much HTTP-requests and so on that I thought it would be necessary
to change that for SPDY-compatibility. I also searched for already done
implementations of SPDY-server for Rails but only found the basic server
in ruby by Ilya Grigorik[1]. I will test the other server, but if there
is someone with some more suggestions for this subject, I would still
appreciate very much if you would share them with me.
Thanks again
Benjamin

[1]: https://github.com/igrigorik/spdy