Re: HTTP/2 -- is support required on the back end?

2015-06-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 03:08:18PM -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: > On 6/24/2015 1:23 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Thus my first goal with HTTP/2 in haproxy really is to make it a > > solid H2->H1 gateway in order to provide a seamless migration to H2 > > to everyone, just like haproxy was massively us

Re: HTTP/2 -- is support required on the back end?

2015-06-24 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 6/24/2015 1:23 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Thus my first goal with HTTP/2 in haproxy really is to make it a > solid H2->H1 gateway in order to provide a seamless migration to H2 > to everyone, just like haproxy was massively used to provide IPv6 > connectivity for the last IPv6 day. > > I'll sti

Re: HTTP/2 -- is support required on the back end?

2015-06-24 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:26:24AM -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: > When http/2 support lands in haproxy, will http/2 support also be > required on the back end to take advantage of it? To add to what CJ Ess said, I'd mention that the real gains of HTTP/2 are between the client and the first point in

Re: HTTP/2 -- is support required on the back end?

2015-06-24 Thread CJ Ess
http/2 takes how web sites have been architected for the last decade and turns it upside down, so I suspect it will take a while to really take hold. On haproxy's roadmap http/2 is in the uncategorized section. =P Also many people think that the TLS overhead that browsers have forced on http/2 wast

HTTP/2 -- is support required on the back end?

2015-06-24 Thread Shawn Heisey
When http/2 support lands in haproxy, will http/2 support also be required on the back end to take advantage of it? I'm hoping that I can leverage http/2 without immediate support on the back end. I would expect that the LAN connection between haproxy and the back end servers will be fast enough