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Comment by otabdeveloper4

5 years ago

> HTTP2 is faster,

No.

> ...more flexible,

No.

> ...and more reliable than HTTP1

No.

Like I said in another comment - I'd wager the majority of HTTP use cases have nothing to do with a browser or HTML/CSS/JS.

HTTP2 might be nicer when you're serving static content to a browser; debatable, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt.

In all the other vast domains of HTTP usage HTTP2 does nothing good.

My concerns have nothing to do with HTML/CSS/JS, but rather the suitability of HTTP as a transport for arbitrary client server protocols --- the subject of this thread. For general transports, multiplexing alone is an obvious win over HTTP.