mod_spdy is now an Apache project
By Matthew
Steele, PageSpeed Insights Team
Just over two years ago, we
launched
mod_spdy, a plugin for the popular
Apache Web
Server that adds support for the
SPDY
protocol. At the time, our goal was both to speed up the web and help fuel the
growth and adoption of SPDY by making it easy for Apache 2.2 users to install and enable SPDY
on their sites. Today, SPDY is now widely adopted, officially supported by several web servers
and many popular sites, and the
IETF is using
it as the basis for the upcoming
HTTP/2.0
protocol. The time seems right for mod_spdy to cease being a third-party add-on, and to
instead become a core part of Apache httpd.
We’re pleased to announce that Google has formally donated mod_spdy’s code to the Apache
Software Foundation, and it is
now a part of the
Apache httpd codebase.
“The intent is to work on making it fully part of [Apache] 2.4 and, of course, a core part of
2.6/3.0” - Jim Jagielski, co-founder of the ASF.
Being a part of Apache core will make SPDY support even more widely available for Apache httpd
users, and pave the way for HTTP/2.0. It will also further improve that support over the
original version of mod_spdy by better integrating SPDY and HTTP/2.0’s multiplexing features
with the core part of the server.
We’re grateful for all the adoption and feedback we’ve gotten from mod_spdy users over the
past two years, and we’re very excited to see the Apache Software Foundation take it from
here!
Matthew Steele is a
Software Engineer on the Google PageSpeed Insights Team in Cambridge, MA. He and his team
focus on developing tools to help site owners make their sites faster and more
usable.
Posted by Louis Gray,
Googler
