Abstract
Internet are widely used now a days, today’s Web interactions are frequently short, with an increasing number of responses carrying only control information and no data. While HTTP uses client-initiated TCP for all Web interactions, TCP is not always well-suited for short interactions. Furthermore, client initiated TCP handicaps the deployment of interception caches in the network because of the possibility of disrupted connections when some client packets bypass the cache on their way to the server. We propose a new transfer protocol for Web traffic, called Dual transport HTTP (DHTTP), which splits the traffic between UDP and TCP channels. When choosing the TCP channel, it is the server who opens the connection back to the client.