Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (July 2012)

mbrubeck · on Dec 1, 2012

Here's a previous HN discussion of this write-up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253538

paulsutter · on Nov 30, 2012

The author completely misses the point of SPDY - latency reduction by significant reduction in the number of network roundtrips due to slow start, etc. It makes me wonder, how can Varnish claim to be a web accelerator if the author doesn't understand latency?

The author also seems to prioritize his own convenience of development over end user experience (the prime benefit of performance).

Google hasn't had any trouble implementing SPDY proxies. SPDY is actually an opportunity for a proxy like Varnish because anyone could get the performance gain of SPDY just by plugging a SPDY-to-HTTP1 proxy in between.

jimktrains2 · on Dec 1, 2012

I know this doesn't pertain to the article specifically, but I wanted to say it anyway.

I would like to see a built in password-based mutual authentication in addition to Basic and Digest authentication.

Additionally, I would like to see a header to drop and forget HTTP authentication.

Also, can't the server just send a multipart message with assets in it (like SPDY's server push) already (by the spec...support is a different question)?