Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure

HTTP 2.0

HTTP 2.0 is the next planned version of the HTTP protocol specification and is an attempt to optimize the usage of network resources and reduce latency through header compressions and pooling multiple connections over the same channels. The initiative is spearheaded by Google and Mozilla research teams and as of today, is in a working draft state. The good news is that HTTP 2.0 is going to retain all the goodness of HTTP 1.1 while making it more performant over the wire through efficient processing of messages. Since HTTP 2.0 is still in the making, we will refrain from using it for the scope of this book. However, if you are enthusiastic to know more about HTTP 2.0, you can take a look at the current draft of the specification at http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/ ...