diff --git a/doc/nghttp.h2r b/doc/nghttp.h2r index a27f416f..92a8fa73 100644 --- a/doc/nghttp.h2r +++ b/doc/nghttp.h2r @@ -1,3 +1,54 @@ +DEPENDENCY BASED PRIORITY +------------------------- + +nghttp sends priority hints to server by default unless +:option:`--no-dep` is used. nghttp mimics the way Firefox employs to +manages dependency using idle streams. We follows the behaviour of +Firefox Nightly as of April, 2015, and nghttp's behaviour is very +static and could be different from Firefox in detail. But reproducing +the same behaviour of Firefox is not our goal. The goal is provide +the easy way to test out the dependency priority in server +implementation. + +When connection is established, nghttp sends 5 PRIORITY frames to idle +streams 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 to create "anchor" nodes in dependency +tree:: + + +-----+ + |id=0 | + +-----+ + ^ ^ ^ + w=201 / | \ w=1 + / | \ + / w=101| \ + +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ + |id=3 | |id=5 | |id=7 | + +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ + ^ ^ + w=1 | w=1 | + | | + +-----+ +-----+ + |id=11| |id=9 | + +-----+ +-----+ + +In the above figure, ``id`` means stream ID, and ``w`` means weight. +The stream 0 is non-existence stream, and forms the root of the tree. +The stream 7 and 9 are not used for now. + +The URIs given in the command-line depend on stream 11 with the weight +given in :option:`-p` option, which defaults to 16. + +If :option:`-a` option is used, nghttp parses the resource pointed by +URI given in command-line as html, and extracts resource links from +it. When requesting those resources, nghttp uses dependency according +to its resource type. + +For CSS, and Javascript files inside "head" element, they depend on +stream 3 with the weight 2. The Javascript files outside "head" +element depend on stream 5 with the weight 2. The mages depend on +stream 11 with the weight 12. The other resources (e.g., icon) depend +on stream 11 with the weight 2. + SEE ALSO --------