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As someone who is implementing HTTP/2 I would also say that HTTP/2 has no advantage for high-bandwidth requests, e.g. video streaming. I would rather guess that
by Matthias247 10y ago
As someone who is implementing HTTP/2 I would also say that HTTP/2 has no advantage for high-bandwidth requests, e.g. video streaming. I would rather guess that even the unencrypted HTTP/2 variant might be slower than HTTP/1.1 in this scenario, since you now can't directly write into a TCP stream but have to interleave it with multiplexing info and have two flow control mechanisms working on top of each other.
HTTP/2 will be mainly a large win for short requests, where it can avoid the large overhead of creating additional TCP connections and make header exchange more efficient.