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HTTP/2 is easy, just turn it on… (medium.com/bbc-design-engineering)
4 points by robin_reala on Nov 7, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


1) My server runs nginx on debian squeezy, even using the newer packages for nginx from upstream, they are built against OpenSSL 1.0.1t matching the system version which does not support APNL. So while I have HTTP/2 enabled, neither Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome can negotiate to even know the protocol is available for use.

2) HTTP2 forces TLS encryption and compression and several other things making it a PITA to debug as one has to first extract the session keys, then decrypt and decompress the data before one gets something readable. What's more wireshark does not yet have the same level of support for piecing together HTTP/2 as it does HTTP 1.1. And even after all that the data is still a binary format.




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