In 1989, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the HTTP protocol on a NeXTcube workstation with 25 MHz CPU and several MBs of RAM. The protocol worked on networks with port connection speeds of 10 ...

When the last version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 (HTTP/1.1) was approved in 1999, fast computers were running 500MHz Pentium III chips, Bill Clinton was president of the United States, and ...

The future of the web is almost ready for prime time. Work on HTTP/2 by the Internet Engineering Task Force HTTP Working Group is finished, according to group chair Mark Nottingham, who made the ...

You may see HTTP/2 come up in your Google Lighthouse audit report, either green (In Use) or as an opportunity to improve page load speed. But what exactly is it and how can you use HTTP/2 for SEO? In ...

Sending data in plain text just doesn’t cut it in an age of abundant hack attacks and mass metadata collection. Some of the biggest names on the Web—Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.—have already ...

In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.

Researchers have discovered a number of security issues related to the new HTTP/2 protocol which could place millions of websites at risk of attack. On Wednesday at Black Hat USA, cybersecurity firm ...

The evolution of the web never stands still. As new technologies are developed, consumer behaviors change and the core infrastructure that underpins the internet is forced to adapt. The HTTP protocol ...

In February, web engineers released a way to move information over the web. Called HTTP/2, the new protocol is designed to make web traffic faster and more efficient. In the months since it was ...

Look at the address bar in your browser. See those letters at the front, "HTTP"? That stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the mechanism a browser uses to request information from a server and ...