Good tidings for Internet folks! Get Ready every bit the entire spider web yous know is close to change. The novel too long-awaited version of HTTP took a major footstep toward becoming a reality on Midweek – It is been officially finalized too approved.
Mark Nottingham, chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working grouping behind creating the standards, announced inwards a spider web log post service that the HTTP/2 is only an update to the protocol, but is actually a huge bargain because the finally fourth dimension the HTTP specification was updated dorsum inwards 1999. This agency the HTTP/2 volition live on the outset major update to the HTTP measure over the finally sixteen years, marker the largest alter since 1999 when HTTP 1.1 was adopted that underpins the WWW every bit nosotros know it today.
WHAT IS HTTP/2 ?
HTTP/2 promises to deliver Web pages to browsers faster, allowing online users to read to a greater extent than pages, purchase to a greater extent than things too perform to a greater extent than too faster Internet searches.
HTTP/2 is based on SPDY protocol, a protocol introduced yesteryear Google inwards 2009 too adopted yesteryear some technologies including Google's ain Chrome browser, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, many websites such every bit Facebook, too some of the software that delivers Web pages to browsers.
SPDY (fittingly pronounced "speedy") was designed to speed upwards the loading of spider web pages too the browsing sense of the online users. Both SPDY too HTTP/2 role "header champaign compression" too "multiplexing" to allow browsers brand multiple requests to spider web servers via a unmarried connection.
“HTTP/2 uses multiplexing to allow many messages to live on interleaved together on a connectedness at the same time, thus that i large reply (or i that takes a long fourth dimension for the server to remember about) doesn't block others,” Nottingham said.
BROWSE EVERYTHING FASTER
HTTP/2 won’t supplant the traditional spider web measure what the the world knows too loves, but it is expected to assist websites charge faster too to a greater extent than securely i time it’s adopted a broad scale.
"Making HTTP/2 succeed agency that it has to move amongst the existing web. So, this seek is close getting the HTTP nosotros know on the wire inwards a amend way, non changing what the protocol means," Nottingham wrote inwards a spider web log post service finally month.
PUSHES ENCRYPTION
HTTP 2.0 also brings some other large alter – Encryption. It was originally planned to force encryption technology scientific discipline called TLS (Transport Layer Security, formerly called SSL for Secure Sockets) inwards HTTP/2, but this was rejected because of inconvenience to for certain network operators too proxy vendors yesteryear burdening them amongst novel standards.
However, when Firefox too Chrome developers said that they won't back upwards HTTP/2 unless it does back upwards encryption. Therefore, Nottingham says, sites that desire to larn the produce goodness of faster browsing "will demand to role TLS if they desire to interoperate amongst the broadest choice of browsers."
WHEN WILL USERS GET HTTP/2 ?
As the specification of the HTTP/2 measure is finalized too approved, afterward going through some editorial processes HTTP/2 volition live on published too cook for adoption.
Well, to relish HTTP/2 on Internet depends on websites, hosting services too companies such every bit Google to implement the standard. For its part, Google already announced that it volition adopt HTTP/2 inwards Chrome yesteryear early on 2016. Users tin also aspect Firefox to follow suit, every bit well. More data is available inwards the HTTP/2 FAQ.
