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Slight aside but in many ways I wish HTTP2 had been closer to John Graham-Cummings suggestion here: “Speeding up HTTP with minimal protocol changes” https://b
by samwillis 5y ago
Slight aside but in many ways I wish HTTP2 had been closer to John Graham-Cummings suggestion here:
“Speeding up HTTP with minimal protocol changes”
https://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/speeding-up-http-with-minimal-protocol.html https://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/speeding-up-http-with-minimal-p...
It’s basically HTTP2s out of order pipelining but implemented as a simple extension to HTTP1.1 text protocol.
I think it would have been nice to maintain and improve the text protocol in that way.
Previous discussions:
2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931837
2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012660