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0 pointsvalarauca19y ago0 comments

Yes it is.

The number of connections to one host isn't relevant in HTTP2. As ublock is blocking some ~20 connections these are going to different hosts. Connecting to a different host in HTTP2 is no different then HTTP1.1

If your HTTP2 is terminating at MANY boxes within your infrastructure you are failing to understand how HTTP2 works. Connections within a single TLS/TCP/IP connection are free, new TLS/TCP/IP connections cost exactly as much as before.

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majewsky9y ago

Come to think of it, it's pretty ironic. For years, admins have been told to move static content to a different domain to trim down the request size (since browsers won't include the cookies for the main site). Now that might reverse, and it might be best to send all HTTP requests to the same server (for large sites: most likely some load balancer or haproxy or whatever) in order to benefit from HTTP/2 multiplexing.

valarauca1OP9y ago

HTTP/2 really seems more like a front end balancing and caching protocol.

Handle your TLS/HTTP2 termination on the same boxes and use HTTP1.1 within the internal network.

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