HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol

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HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 9, 2013 @05:28AM from the cram-your-stuff-in-this-box dept.

earlzdotnet writes "A working copy of the HTTP 2.0 spec has been released. Unlike previous versions of the HTTP protocol, this version will be a binary format, for better or worse. However, this protocol is also completely optional: 'This document is an alternative to, but does not obsolete the HTTP/1.1 message format or protocol. HTTP's existing semantics remain unchanged.'"

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Does it improve coders? by Freshly+Exhumed · 2013-07-09 05:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Can't wait to use the new 046102 047111 005113 tag!

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Re:Makes sense by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-09 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Wrong! .Its UDP. I sent a note to asking him to confirm this fact, but he never replied.
Re:Makes sense by WaffleMonster · 2013-07-09 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Most popular protocol? What ever happened to TCP?
From looks of the draft it has been reimplemented within HTTP.
Re:Makes sense by plover · 2013-07-09 05:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Knock-knock.
Who's there?
UDP packet.
UDP packet who?

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Re:It's really about multiplexing by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-09 06:07 · Score: 4, Funny

You need something better to manage the streams.
What would happen if the streams crossed?
Re:Makes sense by ArcadeMan · 2013-07-09 06:10 · Score: 4, Funny

As they say, HTTP 1.1 isn't going anywhere -- this'll be a dual-stack web with 2.0 being used by new browsers and 1.1 still available for old browsers/people.
In Korea, HTTP 1.1 is for old people.

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Re:It's really about multiplexing by kimvette · 2013-07-09 06:11 · Score: 5, Funny

> What would happen if the streams crossed?
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

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Re:Makes sense by dgatwood · 2013-07-09 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

And then there's the joke one of my coworkers wrote on his whiteboard: "I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it."

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Re:Can someone describe in human terms by Intropy · 2013-07-09 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Think of it like a car, but instead of wheels, frame and engine, it uses binary.
Re:Makes sense by Em+Adespoton · 2013-07-09 06:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Knock-knock.
Who's there?
UDP packet.
UDP packet who?
Knock-knock.
UDP Packet
Who's There? ....
Re:Makes sense by kh31d4r · 2013-07-09 06:53 · Score: 5, Funny

If this will remove badly coded .net applications I'm all for it!
Re:Makes sense by turgid · 2013-07-09 07:42 · Score: 4, Funny

All programmers work for Microsoft and they are the guardians of the Secret Knowledge of the Diabolical Black Art of Making Computers do Stuff by Programming. They produce point-and-click tools for everyone to use their computers. If you are not part of The Sect you have no business engaging in the Diabolical Black Act and you will be hunted down and made to renounce any Secret Knowledge. You will be instructed in the use of the point-and-click tools and made to see that this is the True Path.

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Re:It's really about multiplexing by FireFury03 · 2013-07-09 08:36 · Score: 4, Funny

It reads almost like they reimplemented all of TCP inside of HTTP, complete with stream set-up and teardown, queuing, congestion control, etc. Why not just use... TCP to manage multiple streams?
They're reimplementing SCTP inside TCP. Probably because they know there isn't a hope in hell of convincing Microsoft to implement a protocol that practically every other OS has supported for years...

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Re:Makes sense by makapuf · 2013-07-09 10:52 · Score: 4, Funny

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