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hmm… this caught my eye… "Immediately, we see that SPDY is far more adversely affected by packet loss than HTTPS is. This has been anticipated in other work [29] but never before t…

Totally agreed. TCP is a great general purpose protocol which has been working "fine" in all cases. If it doesn't work well in a particular situation, then I believe its our fault …

Agreed. TCP is a great general purpose communication protocol, but using it in all situations is probably not a good idea. For eg, for a specific case of mobile networks, a custom …

yeah, thats what I thought. These libraries do help to some extent but I think the underlying problem of TCP still remains the same. I wonder how these libraries are handling the p…

Cool, thanks. Now, how are they handling "cancellation" of requests on the network (which have already been made). As far as I understand, HTTP/TCP has no option to cancel a transf…

Very nice compilation. How does these different libraries behave in terms of network performance? My use case is to download many small thumbnails and as the user scrolls up the vi…

JS and slow, thats redundant!

Its the author here. Thanks johnpjoseph for putting this up. Happy to answer any questions :)