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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The long-awaited revision to the venerable (and aging) HTTP protocol is finally here. Here's what's most important, what's to expect, and what to brace for After more than 15 years, the HTTP protocol ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Look at the address bar in your browser. See those letters at the front, "HTTP"? That stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the mechanism a browser uses to request information from a server and ...

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 ...