HTTP/3 enabled in Chrome Canary

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HTTP/3 enabled in Chrome Canary

JorgeV

3:48 pm on Sep 25, 2019 (gmt 0)

Hello-

As far as I know, no one mentioned it here, but Chrome Canary is now supporting the experimental HTTP/3 (draft-23) protocol. So far, Chrome and and it's Canary version were only supporting the HTTP/2 + QUIC draft, from before, the official adoption of the HTTP/3 protocol, one year ago. In fact, in Canary, HTTP/3 appears as HTTP/2 + QUIC 99, may be until the definitive adoption of the draft-23.

LiteSpeed Web and H2O, are, as far as I know, the two web server software which are already supporting the HTTP/3 protocol. Caddy Web Server supports only the HTTP/2 + QUIC, so far.

Dimitri

10:48 am on Mar 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

I do use H2O since years now. I am testing HTTP/3 since some times too, but so far, I can't really see a significant improvement. I believe it's useful for streaming-like services.

Also, it's possible that, with the time, web browsers will optimize their code.

If I don't make mistake, HTTP/3 is still not definitive, current working draft is 27. (so 4 updates since the above message).