I think nginx and Chrome support SPDY which HTTP 2.0 was based on, so that performance should be able to be tested and be fairly representative of what we can expect.
No, because a communication protocol has to handle all the types of problems HTTP and TCP solve. A transfer protocol is concerned with moving data and meta data, not the problems TCP solves.
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The complexity is not horrible as far as communications protocols go.
Anyone know what working implementations exist currently?
Ideally, it'd be nice to see actual real world data showing the benefits over http 1.1.
There's a C++ implementation here, but I'm not sure how complete it is: https://github.com/http2d/core
I think nginx and Chrome support SPDY which HTTP 2.0 was based on, so that performance should be able to be tested and be fairly representative of what we can expect.
But that's the thing...it's _not_ a communication's protocol. It's a transfer protocol...
To-may-to, to-mah-to..
No, because a communication protocol has to handle all the types of problems HTTP and TCP solve. A transfer protocol is concerned with moving data and meta data, not the problems TCP solves.
https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/Implementations