Google Chrome Will Adopt HTTP/2 In the Coming Weeks, Drop SPDY Support

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 9, 2015 @12:11PM from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced it will add HTTP/2, the second major version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), to Google Chrome. The company plans to gradually roll out support to the latest version of its browser, Chrome 40, "in the upcoming weeks." At the same time, Google says it will remove support for SPDY in early 2016. SPDY, which is not an acronym but just a short version for the word "speedy," is a protocol developed primarily at Google to improve browsing by forcing SSL encryption for all sites and speeding up page loads. Chrome will also lose support for the TLS extension NPN in favor of ALPN.

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Re:Might as well redesign HTML as well by BarbaraHudson · 2015-02-09 12:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't give Lennart Poettering any more bad ideas. PLEASE !

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Luke! by Etherwalk · 2015-02-09 13:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Color me paranoid but this sounds like Google is going out of there weigh too weeken encryption in transport. For "national security" in homeland, amirite? God save the homeland!
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