Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] Assignee
	Description • 14 years ago

The patch in bug 599164 disables pipelines for XHR transactions.. Long polls are one of the major pipeline interaction problems, so that is sensible.

OTOH there certainly are things done from XHR that fit the pipeline pattern well. So we should provide a hint that JS authors can use to tell the HTTP engine that all the resources are "fast" in a pipelineable sense.

I think there are a bunch of different ways to do this so I have split this patch out from 599164 so as not to block that work.

	Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] Assignee
	Comment 1 • 14 years ago

This is one approach to the problem. Allow XHR (or any channel user) to do this:

httpRequest.setRequestHeader('X-UA-Response-Speed', 'fast')

which bypasses the SLOW indicator that is placed on by default for XHR.

It avoids changing IDLs, prefixes, detection code, etc.. if it is executed in a context that doesn't understand it the result is a harmless nop.

	Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] Assignee
	Comment 2 • 14 years ago

bitrot and styl updates..

	Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)
	Comment 3 • 14 years ago

IMO, a request header is not great. It makes every request bigger. The disadvantages of an API call mentioned above seem small. An API call as a hint also seems to fit better with HTML rel mechanism that mnot suggested in his pipelining hints draft.

	Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] Assignee
	Comment 4 • 13 years ago

update bitrot to reflect larch

	Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)
	Comment 5 • 13 years ago

Comment on attachment 542082 [details] [diff] [review]
Allow X-UA-Response-Speed: fast to bypass SLOW heuristic

Dropping the review request for now, just because I'm cleaning my review queue, before we get to the pipelining stuff again.  Let's discuss this particular feature more widely first.

	Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)
	Comment 6 • 13 years ago

During discussion of how to optimize our addons update check, I suggested that we may be able to add a hint to cause Necko to be optimistic about pipelining for a connection to reduce the number of parallel connections to versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org during update checking. If the addon update checker uses XHR (probably) then having such an option might be part of solving that problem.

	Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] Assignee
	Comment 7 • 9 years ago

if anything - we will rip out pipelines