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beokop on June 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Certificates for localhost

HTTP/2 requires https in most (all?) browsers these days. If you’re measuring load times locally this can be a bit of a problem.

deathanatos on June 21, 2018 [–]

Major browsers require TLS for HTTP/2. HTTP/2 requires no such thing, and the standard addresses how HTTP/2 should work on a unencrypted connection. (The connection starts as HTTP/1.1, and is upgraded to HTTP/2 with the Upgrade header.)

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