HTTP 2.0

Led by: tollmanz, ericlewis

Posts: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/08/wordpress-and-http2/

HTTP/2 requires TLS, which means sites need to be served over HTTPS to reap its benefits. Zack Tollman and Eric Lewis are going to come up with:

• Ways to educate the community about the process for serving your site over HTTPS
• How to test HTTPS locally
• What changes need to be made in WordPress to allow sites to send the proper headers for HTTP/2
• Mixed content issues still remain for HTTP/HTTPS

HTTP/2 is a replacement for how HTTP is expressed “on the wire.”

“One major goal is to allow the use of a single connection from browsers to a Web site.

The basis of the work was SPDY, but HTTP/2 has evolved to take the community’s input into account, incorporating several improvements in the process.”

Pros:

• Would be great to resolve our mixed content issues.
• We could push the web towards being more secure