The Internet Engineering Task Force’s HTTP Working Group has finalized its work on Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2, the successor to the HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols that are the core of the Web. The ...

When the last version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 (HTTP/1.1) was approved in 1999, fast computers were running 500MHz Pentium III chips, Bill Clinton was president of the United States, and ...

HTTP/2 was approved in February 2015 as the successor to the original web communication protocol. While it is in the last stages of finalization, the standard has already been implemented by early ...

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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 ...

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 ...

What just happened? Introduced in 2015, HTTP/2 brought several enhancements to the HTTP protocol including efficient data transmission, request handling, responsiveness, and header compression for ...

A vulnerability in the HTTP/2 network protocol is currently being exploited, resulting in the largest DDoS attack in history. Find out what security teams should do now, and hear what Cloudflare’s CEO ...

HTTP/2-enabled DDoS attacks are the largest Cloudflare and Google have seen and were launched from a relatively small botnet. Over the past two months attackers have been abusing a feature of the HTTP ...