Fiber: HTTP/2 support 🤔

[shiftrtech]

Does fiber support http 2 or are there any plans to.

Thanks.

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[renanbastos93]

Does fiber support http 2 or are there any plans to.

Thanks.

Hello, we use the lib FastHTTP as our HTTP server, and it doesn't implement yet supported to http2.

TODO:
- HTTP/2.0. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540 .

But it being implemented support the HTTP2 in this link
https://github.com/fasthttp/http2

Well, coming soon we have support in Fiber.

[Fenny]

@shiftrtech thanks for opening your first issue, welcome!

Like @renanbastos93 mentioned, we run on the Fasthttp engine and it currently has no support for HTTP/2.0.

Keep in mind that HTTP/2.0 is often taken care off by any load balancer / proxy like NGINX, Cloudflare, Akamai etc and they do not support HTTP/2.0 communication to the backend server.

NGINX also has no plans to support HTTP/2 for ProxyPass connections :
_There is almost no sense to implement it, as the main HTTP/2 benefit is that it allows multiplexing many requests within a single connection, thus [almost] removing the limit on number of simalteneous requests - and there is no such limit when talking to your own backends. Moreover, things may even become worse when using HTTP/2 to backends, due to single TCP connection being used instead of multiple ones._

But as soon Fasthttp will support HTTP/2, we will too 👍 I hope this answered your question.

[renanbastos93]

At my work, we give support to http/2.0 too. We have a CDN and working with Edge Computing. www.azion.com
@aziontech

[Fenny]

@shiftrtech I hope this answers your question, feel free to re-open :+1: