HTTP Versions Flashcards
one-line protocol
HTTP/0.9
only method in HTTP/0.9
GET
features were introduced over 1991-1995 experimentally
HTTP/1.0
prefixed response messages
status line
standardized protocol
HTTP/1.1
features introduced by 1.1
connection reuse
pipelining
chunked responses
TCP connection could be alive for further requests
Connection reuse
allowed the client to send a second request before a response was received for the first requests
Pipelining
large responses could be split up over several messages
Chunked responses
standardized on May 2015
HTTP/2.0
TRUE OR FALSE
HTTP/2.0 has surpassed HTTP/1.1 in amount of support
False
primary focus of HTTP/2.0
improving transport performance
used by HTTP/2.0 instead of text
binary protocol
multiple requests and responses can be in flight at the same time
multiplexing
allows servers to populate data in a client cache
server push