HTTP/2 Web Servers Internals

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HTTP/2 WebServer Internals

At its core, a webserver is a network facing program that serves content (aka 'mime-type') in response to requests made using the HTTP protocol.

With HTTP/2.0 protocol, we have a re-write of how HTTP is expressed on-the-wire.

HTTP/2 is comprised of two specifications:
. Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 - RFC7540
. HPACK - Header Compression for HTTP/2 - RFC7541

In this context, we take a close look at the new web server implementations that leverage HTTP/2.0 capabilities

We look at setup, configuration, operating and internals of
. Caddy
. H2O

We also compare the operations vis-a-vis
. yaws
. nginx

Note
. we will be providing Docker images for the servers, client and tools

. Please make sure that you have the following software installed on your laptop

• Docker
• Wireshark

This is a "free of charge" FOSS workshop.