What does the new HTTP/2 standard really mean for your applications? Are you at risk of being left behind as more browsers shift to HTTP/2? What pitfalls might there be in adoption? Watch the webinar on demand: https://www.nginx.com/resources/webinars/http2-ask-me-anything/

1. HTTP/2: Ask Me Anything
11 Nov 2015

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Who are we?
Valentin Bartenev
Core Developer
• SPDY and HTTP/2 lead
developer
• Author, “7 Tips for Faster
HTTP/2 Performance”.
Faisal Memon
Product Marketer
Floyd Smith
Technical Marketing Writer
• Author, “HTTP/2 for Web
Application Developers”

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How NGINX Supports HTTP/2
NGINX translates HTTP/2 to the language your application speaks

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HTTP/1 HTTP/2

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HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 Compared
Browsers typically makes 6 connections per domain with HTTP/1.x

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HTTP/1 HTTP/2

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HTTP/2: Summary of Features
• Binary Header – Smaller header size
• Request Prioritization – Define what objects should be prioritized
• Server Push – Server pushes resources to client before it requests it
• Header Compression – HPACK header compression reduces size of HTTP/2
header
• Mandatory SSL – Not mandated by RFC but Chrome and Firefox won’t support
without it
• More secure websites
• Higher search rankings for encrypted sites

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HTTP/2 Support
Source: caniuse.com/#feat=http2

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How NGINX Supports HTTP/2
• Supported in both NGINX Plus R7 and NGINX 1.9.5
• Pre-built Linux binaries are built with OpenSSL 1.0.1
• ALPN is supported but requires OpenSSL 1.0.2
• Compile from source to use ALPN
• SPDY and HTTP/2 not supported in the same binary
• No Server Push yet...

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NGINX HTTP/2 Configuration
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
ssl_certificate server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key server.key;
…
}

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