Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Firefox Add HTTP/3 Support

'HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today with support added in Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. From a report: Starting today, Cloudflare announced that customers will be able to enable an option in their dashboards and turn on HTTP/3 support for their domains. That means that whenever users visit a Cloudflare-hosted website from an HTTP/3-capable client, the connection will automatically upgrade to the new protocol, rather than being handled via older versions. On the browser side, Chrome Canary added support for HTTP/3 earlier this month. Users can enable it by using the Chrome command-line flags of "--enable-quic --quic-version=h3-23". In addition, Mozilla too announced it would roll out support for HTTP/3. The browser maker is scheduled to ship HTTP/3 in an upcoming Firefox Nightly version later this fall.' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/26/1710239 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 08:51:52 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Users can enable it by using the Chrome command-line flags of "--enable-quic --quic-version=h3-23".'
Interesting. QUIC is a whole new layer-4/5 protocol, separate from TCP. According to <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/26/quic_head_to_the_latest_chrome_version_and_try_out_http3/>: ... if you leave your house and drive off, there will be a delay - sometimes a significant one - in receiving data ... thanks to how TCP works ... But QUIC is designed with modern mobility in mind and those data handovers will be much faster and smoother, meaning uninterrupted service. There is a downside: those working behind NAT routers (just about all of us, nowadays?) are going to have trouble. On the other hand, maybe this will hasten the move to IPv6?
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