Today, the next major version of HTTP took a big step toward becoming a reality; it’s been officially finalized and now moves towards being fully standardized. According to a blog by Mark Nottingham, the chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, the standard was completed_today and is_on its_way to the RFC Editor to go through editorial processes before being published as a standard. HTTP/2 is a huge deal; it’s the next big version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, marking_the largest_change since 1999 when HTTP 1.1 was adopted. The new standard brings a number of benefits to one of the Web’s…

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