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Everything you need to know about HTTP/2 Protocol
Hello everyone. In this article, we are going to see what is HTTP/2, its features, terminologies, and benefits. We will also compare HTTP/2 with HTTP/1 and see a brief introduction about HTTP/3 to end this article. Let's get started.
If you are interested to know about HTTP and HTTP(S), please go through my below article
HTTP/2
HTTP/2 is the latest version of the HTTP protocol which was launched in 2015 to make applications faster and more robust by addressing the drawbacks of the HTTP/1.1 protocol. HTTP/2 has been picking up fast and most browsers support HTTP/2 nowadays.
HTTP/2 Features
Some key features of HTTP/2 are as follows
- Multiplexing: Enable request and response multiplexing which permits multiple requests and responses to be sent at the same time in a single TCP connection
- Header Compression: It compresses headers that have been requested previously to make things more efficient
- Stream prioritization: This allows for the exchange of successive streams at one time
- Server push: The server can send additional information to the client without the client having to request each one explicitly.
- Increased security: HTTP/2 is supported through encrypted connections
- Server-side backward compatibility: To make sure that servers can still support clients that use HTTP/1.1 without any changes.
- Compatibility with the methods, status codes, URIs, and header fields defined by the HTTP/1.1 standard
HTTP/2 Deep Dive
HTTP/2 supports binary format and header compression and provides superior performance with low latency. It maintains a single TCP connection between the client and server and avoids the overhead of setting up multiple TCP connections. It supports full request and response multiplexing and hence we can achieve higher…
