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Re:HTTP/3 explained by yellowapple on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:37AM (#19086888)
To expand on that point: load balancers will also have to maintain encrypted connections between themselves and their web servers behind the scenes. That's probably a "best practice" security-wise, but it's convenient to be able to handle the TLS stuff at a load balancer level and stick to plain HTTP behind the scenes.

I suppose this can still happen regardless, except the HTTP/3 connection would stop at the load balancer (which would have to translate to plain ol' HTTP/1 for the servers behind it).

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Re:HTTP/3 explained by johncolanduoni on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:02AM (#19093288)
This is often the case today for load balancers or CDNs that support HTTP/2. For connections from reverse proxies the number of round trips for connection establishment generally does not matter since these connections will be kept alive for a long time, across requests. I don't see why this would change with HTTP/3.
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