HTTP, or the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is a central part of the World Wide Web. On Wednesday, Mark Nottingham, the chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, announced that the HTTP/2 spec is now complete and approved.
This is a big deal because the last time the HTTP spec was updated was back in 1999. A lot has changed with the web over the last 16 years, and HTTP/2 promises to bring big changes and improvements to how the Internet operates.
As the HTTP/2 FAQ makes clear, HTTP 1.1 (the current iteration), is starting to show its age, especially now that webpages are more resource-intensive than ever before. As a result, there are changes in HTTP/2 that should make loading webpages faster. The biggest new feature is something called multiplexing, which will basically allow multiple HTTP requests to be delivered at the same time. Read more...
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