Java Coding Problems

250. HTTP/2

HTTP/2 is an efficient protocol that substantially and measurably improves the HTTP/1.1 protocol.

As part of a bigger picture, HTTP/2 has two parts:

• The framing layer: This is the HTTP/2 multiplexing core ability
• The data layer: This contains the data (what we typically refer to as HTTP)

The following diagram depicts the communication in HTTP/1.1 (top) and HTTP/2 (bottom):

HTTP/2 is widely adopted by servers and browsers, and it comes with the following improvements over HTTP/1.1:

• Binary protocol: Less readable by humans but more machine friendly, the HTTP/2 framing layer is a binary framed protocol.
• Multiplexing: This refers ...