Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-09-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Ian Goldberg wrote: > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > already-implemented 174. It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > requests by 25 to 50 percent, so long as your SOCKS client (e.g. > webfetch, polipo, etc.) is patched to support it. (With that kind of > speedup, I

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-08 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:51:41PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > >> I'm a little worried about the robustness issue: currently, if an exit > >> node refuses a BEGIN request (because of its exit policy typically) > >> the Tor client will retry at another exit node.  But if optimistic > >> data is i

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-08 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Ian Goldberg wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:15:53PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote: >> > Sorry this took so long.  As usual, things got inserted ahead of it in >> > the priority queue.  :-p >> > >> > Anyway,

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Ian Goldberg wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:42:33PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > Overview: > > > > > > This proposal (as well as its already-implemented sibling concerning the > > > server side) aims to reduce the latency of HTTP requests in particular > > > by

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-05 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:15:53PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > Sorry this took so long.  As usual, things got inserted ahead of it in > > the priority queue.  :-p > > > > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > > already-i

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote: > Sorry this took so long.  As usual, things got inserted ahead of it in > the priority queue.  :-p > > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > already-implemented 174.  It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > requests by 25 t

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Kevin Bauer
> Assuming you mean "stream" instead of "circuit" here, then, as above, I > think most HTTP connections would be in this category. It might be > interesting to examine some HTTP traces to see, though. target="Kevin">Kevin, you were looking at some HTTP traces for other > reasons, right? Anythin

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:42:33PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > > already-implemented 174. It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > > requests by 25 to 50 percent, so long as your SOCKS client (e.g. > > webfetch,

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Ian Goldberg wrote: > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > already-implemented 174. It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > requests by 25 to 50 percent, so long as your SOCKS client (e.g. > webfetch, polipo, etc.) is patched to support it. (With that kind of > speedup, I

[tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Goldberg
Sorry this took so long. As usual, things got inserted ahead of it in the priority queue. :-p Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the already-implemented 174. It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP requests by 25 to 50 percent, so long as your SOCKS client (e.g. webfetch, polip