I talked with Greg Ferro on Skype on January 15th. Greg runs the highly technical and nerdy network oriented podcast Packet Pushers. We talked about HTTP/2 for well over an hour and we went through a lot stuff about the new version of the most widely used protocol on the Internet.
Very suitably published today, the very day the IESG approved HTTP/2.
Hello Daniel,
Comments to older posts appear to be closed, so I’m asking here.
Do you know, will HTTP/2 be available for non-encrypted transfers?
Is there any policy or plans on that? Or those, who won’t implement https support will have to stick to HTTP/1.1?
(I’m closing comments on older posts since they basically only attract spammers otherwise.)
I have a pending larger blog post that I’m preparing on the single subject of TLS for HTTP/2! 🙂
The short answer here is that right now there is no browser that implements HTTP/2 without HTTPS although the spec has no such limitations. Therefore the sites that have popped up now with HTTP/2 support also only do it for HTTPS.
If the situation remains like this, then yes those who refuse HTTPS will basically have to stick with 1.1.