Bug 56475

Summary: Allow TLS record size to be configured
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Mark Nottingham <mnot>
Component: mod_sslAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.5-HEAD   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Mark Nottingham 2014-04-30 12:32:58 UTC 
The emerging consensus in the Web performance community is that TLS record size is an important factor for performance -- especially in HTTP/2 and SPDY, which are multiplexed.

Apache should make the record size configurable. Eventually, it'll probably be desirable to have it become dynamically tuned based upon connection status/parameters (e.g., in a module), but a static configuration directive would be a good first step.

See:
  * https://istlsfastyet.com/#server-performance
  * http://www.igvita.com/2013/10/24/optimizing-tls-record-size-and-buffering-latency/