The Internet has evolved significantly since HTTP 1.1 was introduced 17 years ago. During this evolution, we’ve seen many enhancements to improve a user’s online experience, such as the development of ...

A major change is coming to one of the standards of the Internet. An update to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—known as HTTP/2—has been finalized and is in the process of being standardized, ...

In 1989, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the HTTP protocol on a NeXTcube workstation with 25 MHz CPU and several MBs of RAM. The protocol worked on networks with port connection speeds of 10 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force’s HTTP Working Group has finalized its work on Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2, the successor to the HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols that are the core of the Web. The ...

Making the most of HTTP/2 will take a lot of work on the part of Web designers, IT admins, and server jockeys. Here's what to expect Out with the old, in with the new, as the saying goes — but when it ...

BLACK HAT USA 2021 - Implementation flaws and imperfections in the technical specifications around HTTP/2 are exposing websites using the network protocol to a brand-new set of risks, a security ...

HTTP/2 was approved in February 2015 as the successor to the original web communication protocol. While it is in the last stages of finalization, the standard has already been implemented by early ...

In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.