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Railgun is used between CDN and http server, while this one seems to be between browser and http server. Railgun only requires website to deploy a client, and
by songgao 14y ago
Railgun is used between CDN and http server, while this one seems to be between browser and http server.
Railgun only requires website to deploy a client, and cooperate with cloudflare. User's client doesn't have to be Chrome or whatever; web server doesn't need to be aware of Railgun. It's transparent to both HTTP clients and HTTP servers. SDCH, however, requires a modification to HTTP/1.1 protocol, which implies changes in both HTTP clients and HTTP servers.
Both are quite promising, though, Railgun is easier to adopt.
- newman314 14y agoUntil apache or nginx implements it, I wouldn't really see SDCH as gaining any real traction. AFAIK, Chrome is the only one supporting it from a browser standpoint.