Today, the next important one version of HTTP took a big step towards becoming a reality. The update has already been completed and is now moving towards official circulation.
According to his blog Mark Nottingham, chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, the standard was completed today and is on its way to the RFC Draft to go through drafting editing before it is published as a template.
HTTP/2 is the next major version of the Hypertext protocol Transfer Protocol, marking the biggest change since 1999, when HTTP 1.1 was released.
The new standard brings several new features to basic technologies of the Web, such as faster page loading, longer connections, more items arriving sooner, and server push. HTTP/2 uses the same APIs as HTTP, so developers will be familiar, but it also offers a number of new features that they can adopt.
A remarkable change is that HTTP requests will be scarce. The web community has often asked developers to avoid adding too many HTTP requests to their pages for optimization techniques. With HTTP / 2, there is a new multiplexing feature that will allow too many requests to be delivered at the same time, so the page load is not cumbersome.
The new HTTP standard was based on Google's SPDY protocol, which is currently used by some technologies to manipulate traffic and help improve latency and better safetys, ensuring faster page load times. Google announced just a few days ago that it plans to fully switch to HTTP/2 in Chrome.
Developers who wish to try HTTP/2 can do so starting today. More information are available at FAQ of HTTP / 2.