http://simonwillison.net/2009-12-15T15:36:20+00:00Simon Willison2009-12-15T15:36:20+00:002009-12-15T15:36:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/15/australia/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.mnot.net/blog/2009/12/16/http_au">HTTP + Politics = ?</a></strong></p> Mark Nottingham ponders the technical implications of Australia’s decision to apply a filter to all internet traffic. Australia is large enough (and far enough away from the northern hemisphere) that the speed of light is a performance issue, but filtering technologies play extremely poorly with optimisation technologies such as HTTP pipelining and Google’s SPDY proposal. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/australia">australia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/filtering">filtering</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mark-nottingham">mark-nottingham</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pipelining">pipelining</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/politics">politics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spdy">spdy</a></p>