Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s ...

HTTP/3 brings improved performance and reliability, along with various security and privacy benefits, but there are some noteworthy challenges. HTTP3, the third official version of hypertext transfer ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers. It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol ...

Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called "CONTINUATION Flood" can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations.

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