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Why Firefox removes spdy/2 support? They don't want to support spdy/2 servers? Why? PS: I'm not expert on servers :)

• Spittie 13y ago
  It got discontinued, and Chrome dropped it as well. Both support the newer SPDY/3.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY#Protocol_versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY#Protocol_versions https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912550 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912550 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=303957 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=303957
  • josteink 13y ago
    While all browsers support http 1.0 websites almost three decades later. Spdy really shows how fast people are willing to put immature technology in production as long as Google claims it better. Amazing. What's even wise is the attitude towards abandoning published protocols and contracts. This is not how a lasting and stable internet was built. This clearly shows why spdy can't be a candidate for http 2.0
    • mikhailt 13y ago
      Dude, you are comparing two entirely different things and no, it doesn't clearly show anything. Spdy is not an established standard, it's an experimental protocol developed by Google to improve the transmission of data on top of HTTP. So yes, it is normal to have Google and Firefox drop the older versions to push forward on the iterations, it's an experiment to see how they can improve Spdy and in the end, how HTTP 2.0 can benefit from those results. It is more irresponsible to keep and use an older experimental protocol that nobody will use. HTTP 1.0 is an established standard agreed by everybody and that's why it hasn't changed in 30 years, something Spdy is not. HTTP 2.0 working group is already establishing majority of Spdy's experiment results as a working draft for HTTP 2.0.
• wmf 13y ago
  SPDY was an experimental protocol that's only used by evergreen browsers and servers, so there's no need for backwards compatibility.