HTTP-MPLEX

HTTP-MPLEX is a proposed enhancement to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
HTTP-MPLEX is presented and described in
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HTTP-MPLEX and HTTP-MPLEX with extended syntax is described and examined in expanded detail in the doctoral Thesis 'Enhancing HTTP to Improve Page and Object Retrieval Time With Congested Networks'.
In an asymmetric network environment, a slow upstream link is naturally susceptible to congestion. HTTP exacerbates the problem by using many verbose requests to retrieve objects used by a web browser to compose a web page, thereby compounding the congestion. This congestion negatively affects TCP flow control that is reliant on the sender receiving positive cumulative acknowledgement to regulate segment transmission rates.
HTTP-MPLEX, is a header compression and response encoding scheme for HTTP. It is designed to compress traditional HTTP requests to conserve bandwidth; multiplex multiple responses to a single sustained stream of data to speed response times; eliminate head-of-line queue starvation with response multiplexing and improve application layer use of TCP by reducing the number of parallel TCP connections used to retrieve a web page.

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