HTTP/2

English

Proper noun

HTTP/2

1. (Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol/2 (a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web and approved in 2015.)
   • 2015 May, M. Belshe, R. Peon, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)”, in M. Thomson, editor, RFC Editor, →DOI, →ISSN, RFC 7540:

     HTTP/2 enables a more efficient use of network resources and a reduced perception of latency by introducing header field compression and allowing multiple concurrent exchanges on the same connection.

See also

• HTTP/3
• SPDY
• QUIC

Further reading

• HTTP/2 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia