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 ...
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) completed work on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2) standard earlier this week. This new protocol will replace current versions of HTTP (1.0 and 1.1 ...
When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good thing may not be such a good thing at all. The Internet Engineering Task Force is putting the final touches on ...
Sending data in plain text just doesn’t cut it in an age of abundant hack attacks and mass metadata collection. Some of the biggest names on the Web—Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.—have already ...
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Researchers have discovered a number of security issues related to the new HTTP/2 protocol which could place millions of websites at risk of attack. On Wednesday at Black Hat USA, cybersecurity firm ...
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.
Google updated their Googlebot Developers Support Page to reflect that Google is now able to try downloading pages via the latest HTTP/2 protocol. This is effective November 2020. The Googlebot ...
What's missing from this article is a discussion of what the IETF HTTPBIS working group is doing about it. Here's a link to the thread on the mailing list: https ...
The HTTP/2 protocol will speed Web delivery, though it also may put more strain on Web servers as a result When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good ...