CloudFlare intros HTTP/2, so we can ‘spend holiday time with our family’

CloudFlare is introducing HTTP/2 support for all of its users, to be available on all SSL/TLS connections – while still supporting SPDY – so netizens can spend more time with their families instead of waiting for pages to load this Christmas. Talking to The Register on Tuesday night, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince explained the …

[Charlie Clark]

Great news

I take my hat off to CloudFlare for really working hard on this and providing it at no extra cost.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Great news

It's a net saving for them too, since HTTP2 compresses headers.

[TheInternetsFullOfNumbers]

Re: Great news

I take my hat off to the individuals in NGINX who worked really hard on this and provided it at no cost (open-source) so that anyone (including CloudFlare) can use it

[Anonymous Coward]

Hats off to the people who are forced to be unpaid beta testers so that the people who do pay get a less buggy service :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to wait for HTTP3.

[NotBob]

Maybe we can just get a service pack. HTTP2SP1RC3 or the like?

[Donkey Molestor X]

HTTP2SP1RC3? Sounds like you've sprinkled CRISPR/Cas9 on your HTTP RFCs. Are you trying to genesplice an abomination?

[Captain DaFt]

"I'm going to wait for HTTP3."

Nah, better to wait until the prequels.

[Michael Wojcik]

I'm going to stick with HTTP/1.1, which does everything I need and contains significantly less stupidity.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the quiet bahstads you've got to watch....

Hell, didn't even know they had a free tier. Still, well done, every one.

[Andrew Jones 2]

Re: It's the quiet bahstads you've got to watch....

You will have missed the announcement of SSL being activated for all the free tier customers a few months back then.