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curl hacker Daniel Stenberg has announced that his online booklet, HTTP/3 Explained, is available for download from GitHub. The booklet will remain a work in progress as neither the protocol specifications themselves nor any working implmementation are even remotely ready at this moment.
The book describes what HTTP/3 and its underlying transport protocol QUIC are, why they exist, what features they have and how they work. The book is meant to be readable and understandable for most people with a rudimentary level of network knowledge or better.
These protocols are not done yet, there aren't even any implementation of these protocols in the main browsers yet! The book will be updated and extended along the way when things change, implementations mature and the protocols settle.
Earlier on SN:
The Next Version of HTTP Won't be Using TCP (2018)
Google Touts QUIC Protocol (2015)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Tuesday November 27 2018, @09:55PM (3 children)
All the suddenly fucking deprecated wget-esque libraries buried 10 layers deep in the application stack. They're gonna be so much fun to suddenly break at random when servers update IIS versions or whatever.
"Oh yeah, we need to rewrite our entire set of
sql-over-httpsRESTFUL calls because some hacker realized it took 2 extra bytes per packet to use TCP"(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @12:17AM
It was an ordinary day. Neither too hot nor too cold, the weather was quite welcoming. Yet, even on an ordinary day, extraordinary things can happen. And on this day, at that time, extraordinary things did happen.
***
What was he witnessing? Just what was Fredrik witnessing? A man was in an alleyway, pummeling something with all his might. After processing the ongoing event for several seconds, Fredrik realized what was happening: Child abuse. That man was abusing a child. Thinking quickly, Fredrik charged in to put an end to the injustice...
***
He had believed it would just be another ordinary day. Yes, "believed," because he had believed that until he saw it.
Ian had just been walking down the sidewalk when he witnessed something truly out of the ordinary. To be honest, the sight of it shocked him to such a degree that he froze on the spot, unable to react for some time. However, using his wisdom and courage, he was able to forcibly snap himself out of his trance-like state and come to terms with the situation. It was a situation unlike any other.
There were two men. Each of those men were wailing on a small child in an alleyway. Ian never thought that he would witness a situation like this firsthand, so he didn't know how to react at first. But, now, he knew what he had to do: Put a stop to the injustice taking place before him.
Always one to act on his convictions, Ian charged in...
***
There were three men in a certain alleyway. But these were no ordinary men, you understand; each of those men possessed unfathomable wisdom, far surpassing that which the average person could even comprehend. This was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by their actions. You see, each of those men - those wise, courageous men - separately arrived at the awe-inspiring conclusion that justice needed to be dispensed. Hence, the current situation.
All three men were brutally beating and violating a small girl. But, they were doing so in such a way as to cause the maximum amount of suffering possible. For that child, pleas for mercy were all for naught. For that child, suffering was all it knew. For that child, death was but a distant dream. What had the child done to deserve this? No, rather, what didn't that wretched toy do to deserve this?
The girl had the audacity to exist in the presence of men, causing them to become aroused. Then, to make matters even worse, the child tried to reject the men who came to utilize it, when it was all her fault in the first place! Thus, for violating men's rights, justice rained down upon her with a level of fury never before seen.
Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam! Robert, Fredrik, and Ian punched, kicked, slammed, grabbed, pulled, and threw the little girl every which way, from every possible direction. She had screamed at first, but she eventually realized that it was useless, so even that aspect of her resistance vanished. No, that wasn't it; she didn't scream because she was incapable of it, having been transformed into a lifeless husk and all.
Ian pulled his penis out of the toy's anus and sighed in satisfaction. All of the men were smiling and anyone could tell that they were satisfied with this result. Everyone had had their turns, after all. With nothing left to do there, the three wise men walked off into the sunset, talking jovially as they did so.
***
In the coming months, news about three men who were said to possess unfathomable wisdom would travel the globe. Various tales of their exploits were told, but all of those tales had one crucial commonality with respect to the actions of those fabled men: They raped all that they saw...
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday November 28 2018, @01:57AM
If changes to http break that much software, then perhaps the software wasn't well designed in the first place?
Not that that's at all surprising, with so much software being horribly hacked up, death marched rush jobs by bad programmers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Wednesday November 28 2018, @04:02AM
Oh, that one's easy, to make it easier for large content providers (Google, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare) to push content to consumers. Literally. Look at how it's designed and what it does. HTTP/2 was the first step in that direction, HTTP/3 is the final step in the Google-ization of Internet content delivery protocols.
Which also means that /1.1 will be with us forever, and in fact this was explicitly stated by the /2 WG at the time, "let them eat HTTP/1.1 if they find /2 unnecessarily complex", which was the complaint from pretty much every embedded device and IoT thing developer out there. So now HTTP will be fragmented into three totally incompatible methods, 1.x which will be around forever because anything can do it and it just works, 2 which by the looks of it will be a transient thing while Google forces 3 on us, and then maybe eventually 3.