SPDY Module for IIS7

Question

My goal is to implement the SPDY protocol (the new experimental GOOGLE protocol ) on IIS servers.

SPDY is a TCP-based application-level protocol, and therefore I assume that I should work at the TCP (socket programming) level, since the built-in extensions are for HTTP.

My problem is that as soon as I write the socket programming code to do the same, where do I connect it to IIS7? WAS looks like a good candidate, and if so, how do I do it?

Answer 1

IIS has little or nothing to do with SPDY. IIS is simply an application server that responds to HTTP requests sent by the http.sys mode http.sys . All HTTP requests in Windows are handled by this driver.

This is the level at which SPDY will need to be implemented.

If you were to implement SPDY, you would need to have this as a driver for the route between the TCP stack and http.sys , or perhaps even write your own http.sys .

Alternatively, you can write your own SPDY / HTTP stack, but if you want to use it with IIS, you will have to work hard.