title: SPDY + Nginx - Advisable to use whenever possible?
body: <p>So, we have nginx + spdy running for our SSL requests / responses.</p>
  
  <p>All works good.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, spdy is SSL only at this point.</p>
  
  <p>Now, our service is fairly ajax heavy.</p>
  
  <p>We have the option of fairly quickly making the required changes so the requests are sent to our ssl handler and our ssl handler reverse proxies them to where they need to go.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Does spdy really speed things up that much?</strong> Would it be worth spending what will probably be a couple of hours to make chrome / latest firefox send our ajax requests to our ssl handler and have our ssl handler reverse proxy them where they need to go?</p>
  
  <p>Notes:</p>
  
  <p>a) This will only be active for a select group of white listed browsers (eg: chrome latest / firefox latest). Fairly simple js change there.</p>
  
  <p>b) Yes, we know how to make http -> https ajax requests on these white listed browsers.</p>
  
  <p>c) From our fairly extensive testing, the nginx + spdy combo works quite well. So yes, we know its slightly alpha/beta at this point. A small risk we are willing to take.</p>
  
  <p>d) Bare in mind, our service is 90%+ ajax. Only initial entry is served via non-ajax, all other 'page views' are handled via ajax. So this has the potential to speed  things up quite a bit for a large subset of our users.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>