Monday, January 03, 2022

Re: httpd HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 09:36:54AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2021-12-31, Georg Pfuetzenreuter <georg@syscid.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I searched but couldn't find any recent threads.
> > Does httpd support HTTP/2?
>
> No.
>
> > Is support for the upcoming HTTP/3 planned?
>
> guessing but I think this would also be "no".

It is indeed not. HTTP/3 is "just" HTTP/2 over QUIC.

Implementing reliable communication over UDP in userland is a lot of work
and it is rather complicated. On top it is a violation of the OSI stack
and the socket(2) API. And then it needs to be reimplemented for every
application that wants to use it.

--
:wq Claudio

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