{"id":235494,"date":"2017-10-31T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=235494"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:07:25","slug":"new-http-status-code-for-reduced-perceived-latency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/235494-new-http-status-code-for-reduced-perceived-latency.html","title":{"rendered":"New HTTP status code for reduced perceived latency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Task Engineering Group (IETF) has approved the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/doc\/draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HTTP status code 103<\/strong><\/a>, which aims to reduce perceived latency.<\/p>\n<p>HTTP responses commonly contain links to external resources which need to be fetched, and fetching these links increases perceived latency.<\/p>\n<p>By preloading these links in the Link header field of an HTTP response, the client can receive the link as early as possible and the perceived latency is reduced.<\/p>\n<p>However, the IETF circular said it is not always possible for an origin server to generate the header block of a final response immediately after it receives the request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dilemma here is that even though it is preferable for an origin server to send some header fields as soon as it receives a request, it cannot do so until the status code and the full header fields of the final HTTP response are determined,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/235122-google-improves-the-way-it-gives-local-search-results.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google improves the way it gives local search results<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Task Engineering Group has approved the HTTP status code 103.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":162888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20855,47002,47000],"class_list":["post-235494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-http","tag-perceived-latency","tag-status-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235496,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235494\/revisions\/235496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}