This piece was originally written for the Gopher Academy advent series. We are grateful to them for allowing us to republish it here. Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That's not
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If you have experienced HTTP/2 for yourself, you are probably aware of the visible performance gains possible with HTTP/2 due to features like stream multiplexing, explicit stream dependencies, and Server Push. There is however one important feature that is not obvious to the eye. This is the HPACK
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CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP. With Universal SSL or similar features, a simple
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Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS. Opportunistic Encryption provides an additional level of security to websites that have not yet moved to HTTPS and the performance benefits
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In April, we announced support for HTTP/2 Server Push via the HTTP Link header. My coworker John has demonstrated how easy it is to add Server Push to an example PHP application. CC BY 2.0 image by Nicky Fernandes We wanted to make it easy to improve the
Ask Some HTTP/2 Pros The Hard Questions
We're big fans of HTTP/2 and our customers make up the majority of HTTP/2 enabled domains today. HTTP/2 is a key part of the modern web, and its growth and adoption is changing how websites and applications are built. On Thursday July 21, 2016, join web performance
HTTP/2 Server Push with multiple assets per Link header
In April we announced that we had added experimental support for HTTP/2 Server Push to all CloudFlare web sites. We did this so that our customers could iterate on this new functionality. CC BY 2.0 image by https://www.flickr.com/photos/mryipyop/ Our implementation of Server Push
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We're big fans of HTTP/2 at CloudFlare. Our customers make up the majority of HTTP/2 enabled domains today. HTTP/2 is a key part of the modern web, and its growth and adoption is changing how websites and applications are built. On Thursday April 28, 2016, our friends