About 30% percent of traffic to Cloudflare uses HTTP/3 [0], so it seems pretty popular already. For comparison, this is 3× as much traffic as HTTP/1.1.
Go http webserver doesn't support http 3 without external libraries. Nginx doesn't support http 3. Apache doesn't support http 3. node.js doesn't support http 3. Kubernetes ingress doesn't support http 3.
should I go on?
edit: even curl itself - which created the original document linked above - has http 3 just in an experimental build.
About 30% percent of traffic to Cloudflare uses HTTP/3 [0], so it seems pretty popular already. For comparison, this is 3× as much traffic as HTTP/1.1.
[0]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage#http1x-vs-ht...
and then cloudflare converts that to http/2 or even 1.1 for the backend
So? Those protocols work fine within the reliable low latency network of a datacenter.
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"As of September 2024, HTTP/3 is supported by more than 95% of major web browsers in use and 34% of the top 10 million websites."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3
Yes and, at the same time practical support within programming language standard libraries & common tooling lags way behind: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-...
You will get most of the benefits of HTTP 3 even if your app libraries run HTTP 1.1, as long as the app is behind a reverse proxy that speaks HTTP 3.
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A lot of servers still don't support that.
Go http webserver doesn't support http 3 without external libraries. Nginx doesn't support http 3. Apache doesn't support http 3. node.js doesn't support http 3. Kubernetes ingress doesn't support http 3.
should I go on?
edit: even curl itself - which created the original document linked above - has http 3 just in an experimental build.
>Nginx doesn't support http 3
nginx do support it.
https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html
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Well this statement have to be precised.
caddyserver v2 supports HTTP/3 and it's an webserver written in go https://caddyserver.com/features
FYI: There is also an rust webserver which supports HTTP/3. https://v2.ferronweb.org/
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Also apparently slower over fast connections https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.09423