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0 pointslazyloop11y ago0 comments

Poul-Henning Kamp (the author of Varnish) explained it best. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278

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Do you have another explanation which hasn't been torn apart by Hacker News commentators already? As someone who would like to avoid going to the trouble to implement HTTP2, I'm not being sarcastic - I truly want to know why HTTP2 is so bad, and I want to read it from someone who backs up their words with cold-hard facts

frankzinger11y ago

Have a look at the W3 HTTP WG mailing list. PHK and others voiced all of their objections there in detail over a long period, and you can also read the rest of the WG's responses: https://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywor... (all of PHK's posts to the list, in chronological order).

lazyloopOP11y ago

This for example happened in the HTTP working group earlier today, the whole thing was rushed and the known flaws just keep adding up. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2015JanMar...

asuffield11y ago

I followed the thread a little further, and the response seemed reasonable: experiments were run on this idea, it didn't seem to help, and nobody (including phk) has offered any further evidence to the contrary since then.

I think you need to expand a little more on why you feel this is a "known flaw".

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mark24211y ago

"As someone who would like to avoid going to the trouble to implement HTTP2 (...)"

Good luck with that. Google has been incredibly adept at using the leverage of their search engine to make webmasters adhere to best practices. ("mobile friendly" e-mails lately, anyone?) Once HTTP/2 lands as a default in Chrome, Apache, Nginx, and Netty, of course they'll push HTTP/2-friendly sites higher in search results.

stephenr11y ago

I think you meant to say "Googles definition of best practices"

DannyBee11y ago

Except, as HN has mostly ripped him apart for, his argument is very weak at best.

He goes into zero detail, and where he does, it says things like "likely to increase CO2 consumption"?

Seriously?

IvyMike11y ago

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850059

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