While typing in a URL and pressing Enter inside a browser is effortless, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes. In this article, I'll review some of the basics of HTTP and show how they're ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers. It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol ...

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The future of the web is almost ready for prime time. Work on HTTP/2 by the Internet Engineering Task Force HTTP Working Group is finished, according to group chair Mark Nottingham, who made the ...

The HTTP-over-QUIC experimental protocol will be renamed to HTTP/3 and is expected to become the third official version of the HTTP protocol, officials at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ...

There are two main HTTP protocols: Version 1.0 and Version 1.1. I could spend an entire article going over the differences between the two. For brevity's sake, the key takeaway is that HTTP 1.1 was ...