Editing HTTP (section)

====SPDY<nowiki>:</nowiki> an unofficial HTTP protocol developed by Google====
In 2009, [[Google]], a private company, announced that it had developed and tested a new HTTP binary protocol named [[SPDY]]. The implicit aim was to greatly speed up web traffic (specially between future web browsers and its servers).

SPDY was indeed much faster than HTTP/1.1 in many tests and so it was quickly adopted by [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] and then by other major web browsers.<ref name="SPDY-vs-HTTP/1.1">{{Cite web|url=http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper|title=SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web|website=dev.chromium.org|publisher=Google|date=2009-11-01|access-date=2021-10-19|language=en|author=}}</ref>

Some of the ideas about multiplexing HTTP streams over a single TCP/IP connection were taken from various sources, including the work of W3C HTTP-NG Working Group.