I agree, I just hope we don't see the opposite problem happen where we end up in a world where HTTP/1.1 over TCP goes away. I implemented a HTTP/1.1 server with

I agree, I just hope we don't see the opposite problem happen where we end up in a world where HTTP/1.1 over TCP goes away. I implemented a HTTP/1.1 server with range request support in JavaScript in a few hours last week. It's incomplete and likely rather insecure, but it works with curl and browsers. There's something important about having this ability.