Re:HTTPS' massive speed advantage
by umwhat999 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @11:20PM
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A cool thing about HTTP/2 is that it's really mostly just an optimization for HTTP/1.1.
Which means that if and when we come up with something better, we can deprecate HTTP/2 support, and support only HTTP/next + HTTP/1.1. This helps avoid legacy cruft.
Google did that for SPDY with Chrome - it's no longer supported.
While I'm not convinced that a proper implementation of HTTP 1.1 would actually be just as fast as HTTP 2.0, if you are right, there will be data to show it, and it's not too late for us to change the ecosystem based on that data.
Which means that if and when we come up with something better, we can deprecate HTTP/2 support, and support only HTTP/next + HTTP/1.1. This helps avoid legacy cruft.
Google did that for SPDY with Chrome - it's no longer supported.
While I'm not convinced that a proper implementation of HTTP 1.1 would actually be just as fast as HTTP 2.0, if you are right, there will be data to show it, and it's not too late for us to change the ecosystem based on that data.