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Re:HTTP/3 Is Fast by tsimionescu on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:48AM (#29564203)
> HTTP/3 is a way of spelling the HTTP protocol over QUIC

HTTP/3 could perhaps be described as HTTP/2 over QUIC. It's still a very different protocol from HTTP/1.1, even if you were to ignore the transport being used - the way connections are managed is entirely different.

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Re:HTTP/3 Is Fast by tialaramex on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:35AM (#29565119)
It's just spelling. It certainly wouldn't be better to think of it as HTTP/2 over QUIC since it works quite differently because it doesn't have an in-order protocol underneath it.

HTTP has a bunch of semantics independent of how it's spelled and HTTP/3 preserves those with a new spelling and better performance

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