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I'm using nginx with SPDY and I've noticed that if I start downloading a file, I can no longer load pages on the website. I get an error message in Firefox sayi

I'm using nginx with SPDY and I've noticed that if I start downloading a file, I can no longer load pages on the website. I get an error message in Firefox saying "The connection was interrupted". If I do a ctrl+F5 then I can continue browsing the site. Does this have to do with the "one TCP connection"?

AgentME 12y ago
I see this behavior too on SPDY-using sites, including ones on CloudFlare. Everyone is constantly going on about the benefits of parallel requests that SPDY / HTTP/2 brings, but I'm not seeing it. Can anyone explain? I'm about to go back to domain-sharding resources to solve this for some of my work even though CloudFlare says that it's not recommended with SPDY.
mankyd 12y ago
It should not. That sounds like a bug or configuration problem somewhere. SPDY and HTTP/2 can multiplex their data streams across a single connection. That is to say, they can receive 2+ datastreams on the same TCP connection at the same time.
- fletchowns 12y ago
  Which configuration parameters should I be looking at?
patrickmcmanus 12y ago
i'm a firefox dev. That sounds like a sender (i.e. server) bug, but I'd like to rule out a client problem. Can you send me a specific steps-to-reproduce at pmcmanus@mozilla.com ?
- fletchowns 12y ago
  I think I may have just ruled out a client problem, I just tried it in Chrome and it has the same behavior. Are the specific steps still useful or should I follow up with the nginx folks instead?