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I don't think people that are running Nginx with spdy are doing so with the stable version. I started using spdy back when it was a patch you had to manually apply, before compiling Nginx.

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Count me as one of those people who doesn't like to have to work around backwards compatibility breaks when installing security patches on production servers. :-)

(edit: clarified wording)

There's always HTTP 1.1 available for the people that don't want the burdein of being on the leading edge (yep, I'm on that team).

Anyway, doesn't spdy/2 have a huge security flaw in certificate management? I don't remember it well. If that's the case, it's good that they droped it.

These days you just have compile it with --with-http_spdy_module in configure step. (for the current 1.4.6-stable). We were about to go into production but will hold it off.

Also the current mainline 1.5 version has implementation of spdy/3.

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