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Joker_vD 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Where Is HTTP/3? (2021)

It's all HTTP/1.1 at the application layer, still. The HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are mostly a binary encoding scheme (to use on top of good old TLS on top of TCP) and a different transport protocol (on top of UDP instead of TCP), respectively, but their goal is to carry good old HTTP/1.1 messages around.

wbl 4 months ago [–]

Not exactly. HTTP now has multiple substrates some with different features and documents describe the mapping of HTTP onto each substrate.

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