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Episode 114 - HTTP/2
About this episode
short is a major revision of the hyper text transfer protocol that improves the performance of the web. It uses a binary protocol and multiplexing.
In this video I want to go through how HTTP/2 works, its pros and cons and show the performance difference between HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2
Http/1
request has to wait for a response
And if you used up your connection response you can send anything else.
Source Code: https://github.com/hnasr/javascript_playground/tree/master/staticpage
So hack !
6 tcp connections
Pros
One connection
Multipex
Push ( have to enable)
Hpack (compress)
Cons
Abuse push
Proxies that dont support it might slow down
Load balancer layer 7 (a layer 7 load balancer that doesnt support h2 will slow down when your web server supports it)
Cards
1:25 HTTP crash course
12:30 TLS
Time codes
HTTP 1.1 2:15
HTTP/2 5:50
HTTP/2 With Push 8:25
HTTP/2 Pros 9:48
HTTP/2 Cons 14:10
Demo 17:15
+----------+--------+---------+---------+
| Protocol | Online | Fast 3G | Slow 3G |
+----------+--------+---------+---------+
| HTTP 1.1 | 94 ms | 10 s | 36 s |
+----------+--------+---------+---------+
| HTTP/2 | 171 ms | 2.7 s | 10 s |
+----------+--------+---------+---------+
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