[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Dirk Munk]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
> ps/btw/fwiw: for those pondering the available implementations and the
> compatibility of web browsers and of web servers, there are some HTTP
> changes underway, with HTTP/2:
>
> http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch12.html
>

Thanks for pointing us at that page. I had been reading about this a few 
weeks ago, and this is a big improvement indeed. I had been thinking 
about something like that for years, in very vague terms that is. It 
always appeared to me how very inefficient HTTP is in transmitting a web 
page. For every item on the page a new connection is made, a waste of 
resources, and very time consuming. I always wondered if it wouldn't 
been possible to zip the whole page at the server and send it in one 
stream. It seems the push mechanism og HTTP/2 is doing something 
similar, inspecting the page for links to other objects, and including 
those objects in the stream before the client asks for them.