Whirlwind tour through the HTTP2 spec
summary
Claims a realistic up‑to‑50% speed boost but shows the caveats and concrete numbers: HTTP/2 already carries ~22% of web traffic and ~35% of SSL traffic, yet a real page still hit 254 requests, 6 MB and ~20 s cold load. The protocol reworks transport with ALPN TLS handshake for upgrade, binary frames and multiplexing, priority trees (Firefox example), and Hpack header compression using Huffman tables. Server push exists but misfires without cache signals; cache digest and QUIC are next. Apache/Nginx enablement is often a single config line; benefits require collapsing assets onto one connection.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:19Whirlwind tour through the HTTP2 spec
- 7:53SUPER FLEXIBLE
- 14:11CONCATENATING
- 14:31INLINING
- 15:39COMPATIBLE
- 17:55MULTIPLEXED
