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Offline sargentodiaz

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HTTP/2
« on: February 19, 2015, 04:17:42 PM »


This is completely over my head technically and I have no idea whether it's good or bad. So, perhaps one of you here can explain it in layman's terms to us. I read where some “expert” says that the “web as we know it will soon disappear.” And comes this?

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Re: HTTP/2
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 06:24:50 PM »
Basically it is sending more data in smaller packets and sending packets in parallel each on a different data streams (multiplexing).
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Re: HTTP/2
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2015, 03:42:29 PM »
So will that mean existing soft/hardware can handle it?