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SPDY is always encrypted, so it would be more fair to compare it with HTTPS, where you can't do anything like that anyway.

Sure you can. openssl s_client -connect google.com:443

Not sure what the equivalent is on windows though.

not surprisingly it's... openssl s_client -connect google.com:443

Sure, but that's not telnet. I would assume you could make a similar tool for debugging SPDY too.